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“Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has finished filming a new thriller “Escape From Pretoria”.

‘Harry Potter’ actor to star in new S.Africa jailbreak drama CANNES - “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has finished filming a new thriller where he plays a white anti-apartheid activist who escaped from one of South Africa’s toughest jails, its distributor said Tuesday.

Based on a true story, the breakout tale “Escape From Pretoria” is drawn from Tim Jenkin’s account of his dramatic escape from the notorious Pretoria Maximum Security Prison with his friend Stephen Lee in 1979.

Already in post-production after shooting was wrapped up in South Africa three weeks ago, fresh footage will be on show at the Cannes film festival which begins Tuesday, Arclight Films said.

Jenkin, now 70, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for handing out leaflets supporting the then banned African National Congress.

But he managed to make a set of wooden keys for a series of doors inside the jail, which housed the country’s death row.

Using a device made from a broom handle and a mirror he had hidden in his cell, Jenkin opened his cell door and then freed his neighbour and friend Lee.

Edgy, dark and tolerated: ‘China noir’ seeks Cannes breakthrough The Diao Yinan-directed crime thriller “The Wild Goose Lake” is going head-to-head with the likes of Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” for the festival’s top prize, the Palme D’Or. Similar gritty themes are expected to be explored in director Zu Fen’s “Summer of Changsha”, which is competing in the more edgy Un Certain Regard section.

Both films are part of a growing “mainland noir” film movement that is expanding the boundaries of a Chinese film industry strictly controlled by government censorship over topics such as violence, corruption and sex.

Shot and situated far from the gleaming lights of modern China’s metropolises, these films feature haunted anti-heroes dwelling on the edges of society.

The box office success of 2017’s critically lauded “Looming Storm” -- about one man’s hunt for a serial killer stalking a small town -- showed that previously taboo subjects are increasingly tolerated by China’s National Film Administration.

Diao’s last crime thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice” picked up the Golden Bear top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014 with its gripping tale of a wronged policemen looking for redemption.

It was also a global box office ground-breaker for low-budget Chinese films, collecting around $17 million (15 million euros) after successful domestic and limited international runs.

“These are exciting times,” said Alexandre Mallet-Guy, producer of “The Wild Goose Lake”.

“Our film is noir, with a very complex plot and it is very stylish.” (afp)

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HONG KONG - Tales from the shadowy edges of modern Chinese society aim to turn heads at the Cannes film festival, showing the growing scope and sophistication of the world’s second-largest movie market.

Both managed to slip out of the tightly guarded prison and eventually flee to London.

The movie is directed by Francis Annan, a rising young black British director who also wrote the script. Radcliffe, 29, is also playing the lead in the action comedy “Guns Akimbo”, which is now in post-production. (afp)

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The equipment to detect monkeypox is utulized at Soekarno Hatta International Airport.

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Indonesia on alert for monkeypox

Tightens inspection on visitors from Singapore, Nigeria

JAKARTA - The government, particularly the Health Ministry, has intensified efforts to prevent the spread of monkeypox after Singapore reported its first case of the rare virus recently.

“The Health Ministry has been anticipating the potential spread (of the monkeypox virus) since last week by strengthening its prevention and detection systems at various entry gates to Indonesia,” said the ministry’s disease control and prevention director general, Mr Anung Sugihantono.

He added that tight inspection of visitors from Nigeria and Singapore had been carried out to further prevent the virus spreading.

Singapore reported over the weekend that it had identified a case of monkeypox that might have been brought in by a Nigerian man, who

had allegedly contracted the virus by eating bushmeat at a wedding.

In response to the report, Batam, as the Indonesian region closest to Singapore, has initiated measures to prevent the potential spread of the rare virus.

Local authorities have readied two hospitals, namely the Batam Free Trade Zone Hospital and Embung Fatimah Public Hospital, as the main providers of special treatment for suspected monkeypox cases. They have also set up thermal detectors in five international ports directly connecting the island and Singapore.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore, involving a Nigerian national who arrived last month for a workshop.

Risk of monkeypox spreading in Singapore is low, say infectious disease experts The Batam authorities are monitoring visitors coming into the city via the airport, even though there are no direct flights connecting Batam and Singapore.

Batam Health Agency head Didi Kusumajadi and his team visited the Batam Free Trade Zone Hospital on Monday to inspect the isolation and emergency rooms.

“We will continue monitoring the situation and maintaining preventive measures until Singapore declares that it is free from the

virus,” Mr Didi told The Jakarta Post separately.

So far, no person has been declared monkeypox-positive since the implementation of the tighter inspection regime at Batam’s entry gates. Batam Immigration Office’s data show that roughly 3.3 million people entered last year via the five international ports.

About 1.7 million of the visitors came from overseas - a majority of whom were Singaporean.

Mr Didi gave an assurance that, as a border region, Batam had proven itself successful in preventing the spread of contagious diseases including the Sars virus outbreak that hit Singapore hard in 2003. The disease reportedly killed 33 people in the country, inflicted major losses on the economy and hit some international visitors.

Monkeypox is endemic to parts of Central and Western Africa.

Symptoms in humans include lesions, fever, muscle aches and chills. It can be transmitted via close contact with infected animals such as rodents and monkeys, and between people. It is not normally fatal, with fewer than 10 per cent of deaths recorded in documented outbreaks, mostly among young children.

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Director General of P2P: WHO reminds that monkeypox transmits from human to human DENPASAR - Ministry of Health received a notification from the World Health Organization (WHO) that there is a monkeypox case that occurred in Singapore. The disease attacked a Nigerian citizen. The person was confirmed positive for monkeypox.

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Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) at the Ministry of Health, Anung Sugihantono, explained the disease has long been known since the 1970s but in Africa. Monkeypox partly leads to self limiting sessions, which means that patient can return to normal within a certain period of time if the body’s resistance is good. “But now WHO identifies and reminds that this disease is contagious,” he said during the Commemoration of World Malaria Day at Kertalangu, Denpasar, on Monday (May 13).

Until now the transmission is only known to happen from animals to humans, but WHO asks to be aware of the transmission from human to human. “That’s why Singapore then checked the people who had contact with the person related to this case,” he said.

A total of 29 people who had contact with positive monkeypox patient were examined. Until now, there have been no case discoveries in Singapore from the contacts.

“Since the case was notified by the Singapore’s Ministry of Health and told us, we remind our colleagues at the harbor health offices to make prevention, case discovery efforts and continuous observation at the entrances,” he explained.

He focused on the entrances adjacent to Singapore, namely in Batam, Tanjung Pinang and Riau Islands because there are many entrances there.

“Besides, many Nigerian citizens are in Indonesia in the context of shopping or buying something to bring to their home country.

Therefore, we observe and guard the Soekarno-Hatta, Tanjung Priok as well as other entrances,” he said. Up to this day, he did not find any cases and no news about it spread in Indonesia. (kmb42)

Beji Paluh Park becomes a new spiritual tourism MANGUPURA - A number of villages in Badung district are interested in developing their tourism sector. Within this year, many new tourist objects have emerged. For instance, there is Beji Paluh Park located at Penarungan village.

The tourist attraction getting renovation assistance from the Badung district government has become one of the tourist attractions in Bali, especially Badung. Beji Paluh Park does exist from time immemorial. Many people want to perform spiritual cleansing by doing melukat or self-purification at the Beji Park Temple.

Not only that, the self-purification located at Eleven Shower of Dauh Peken hamlet area, Penarungan village, Mengwi, really presents complete natural beauty

with tubing tourist attractions.

“Based on the story I know, it is said the water flowing into Beji Paluh Park comes from the Tukad Yeh Penet and Bebengan River,” said hamlet chief of Dauh Peken, I Gede Made Artanegara, on Monday (May 13).

According to him, the project on behalf of the arrangement of Beji Park and Road Tracking at Penarungan tourism village is disbursed with the fund of IDR 14,870,064,000. “It is meant to provide the opportunities and facilities for the wider community to do the penglukatan or self-purification,” he explained.

The Five Showers consist of the Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Rudra and Sambu. Meanwhile, the Eleven Showers consists of the Toya Ning,

Tirta Gangga, Toya Penglukatan, Toya Pembersihan, Toya Pamrayascitta, Toya Pangleburan, Toya Pangening-ening, Toya Panyejer, Toya Sudamala, and Toya Pangentas.

Regarding the management, the destination also offering a jogging track and river tubing is under the Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) of Penarungan village.

“The management of Pokdarwis is based on the decree of local headman,” he said.

As the stories circulating in the community, it started from subak group of Kapal village requiring irrigation water for the villagers’ fields. Local community tried to direct the flow of springs from Penarungan village to Kapal village. It was started from Abing hamlet which is currently known as

Dauh Peken hamlet. Community’s efforts did not work out, even repeatedly the land collapsed. People then made breakdown as a barrier to direct the water flow. It is said that due to this problem, one of the community members intentionally tried by invoking to the ruler of nature. Whoever arrived at the end will be used as pakelem or sacrifice so that the effort was successful.

Apparently, the vow really worked. Once upon a time, someone arrived at the end. He was a water coordinator who was in charge of regulating the irrigation water. Suddenly, he fell and died while walking on the edge of the river. Since then, the decision made has never experienced a problem until now. The former droppings of the river caused the soil uneven

or what is referred to as mapaluhpaluh until then the location of former backfill is known as Beji Paluh Park until now.

Psychically, said Artanegara, the springs in Beji Paluh Park have long been believed to have efficacies. In particular, they can cure various nonmedical diseases such as eye and skin disease. Initially, there were five springs in Beji Paluh Park. That’s why it was then called the Pancoran Lima or Five Showers.

“Local residents usually use it for penglukatan or self-purification of all basic elements. Especially for health, the flow of water in Beji Paluh Temple is believed through generations to have efficacy that can provide healing for the eye and skin diseases,” he explained. (kmb27)

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EAT AND REPEAT

FOOD STARTS HERE! This May, beachwalk Shopping Center presents “EAT & REPEAT”. By emphasizing ‘Food’ as a major theme, beachwalk brings new atmosphere with new spirit for the customers. Furthermore, beachwalk Shopping Center is offering a bunch of events and promo to our customers.

On this May, beachwalk had a big surprise for customers. Beachwalk launched a brand new area called “Sunset Deck” at level 3.

Sunset Deck provides the Kuta Beach view with the ocean breezes plus the sunset from the rooftop of beachwalk Shopping Center, where customers can enjoy the golden hour after shopping with the loved ones. Sunset Deck will be surrounding by new brands of Food & Beverages tenants which will make golden hour nearly perfect. Besides, beachwalk presents “beachwalk Sunsetion” at the Sunset Deck, there will be various entertainments during May 2019 around sunset hour. Establish your perfect sunset hour moment with beachwalk Shopping Center at Sunset Deck level 3.

Bali Starts Here. Every Tuesday and Wednesday at our Fountain Stage level 1 starts at 7.00 PM beachwalk has some authentic cultural performances like learning traditional Balinese dance, contemporary dance, creating traditional Balinese offerings and inviting costumers to play Balinese music in-

strumental. And not to be missed to take selfie with the Costume Play, because they will always be around the mall, so be ready to get the selfie moment with them. Beachwalk always loves to entertain the customers, mark your schedule for our regular “ACOUSTIC EVE” from Wednesday to Monday started by at 6.00 PM – 8.00 PM. YOUR REWARDS, YOUR WAY! Not to be missed is Beachwalk “CORNER’S CARD” – has launched on October 2017, a special loyalty card program for beachwalk shopping center’s loyal customers that lets them to collect and redeem points with countless special gifts and fantastic vouchers. All you have to do to become a “CORNER’S CARD” member is just simply do a single purchase of a minimum IDR 50,000 in a single receipt and redeem it at our Customer Service, level 1. Another advantage of having “CORNER’S CARD” is that Customers are eligible to have benefits not only in beachwalk shopping center but also at all the Cornerstone malls, those are: fx Sudirman, Jakarta & 23Paskal, Bandung. In addition to customers who already possess “CORNER’S CARD” can get the opportunity to win a lucky draw for 1 night stay at Berry Biz Hotel & Berry Glee Hotel.

Beachwalk Shopping Center brings something special for all members of “CORNER’S CARD” for these 3 months of Beachwalk’s

“FOOD STARTS HERE” program from April 2019 until next June 2019. This Foody Month, we have Weekdays Special treat; “EAT AND GET DOUBLE POINTS” program, CORNER’S CARD members are eligible to get double point by minimum purchase IDR 250.000, - (1 receipt only) at Food & Beverage tenants at beachwalk Shopping Center from Monday – Thursday.

Lately, beachwalk has just launched a special program for tourists, namely Tourist Wallet.

This program offers 2 special privileges; members could get Instant Rewards by spend minimum IDR 300,000. And also by spend minimum IDR 500,000 Tourist Wallet member can get free luggage service. Registration for Tourist Wallet program can be done at Customer Service Desk, level 1 only by showing the passport to the Customer Service.

Check out beachwalk Shopping Center new website with a fresh design and totally brand new concept. Several new features added to ease the Customer in accessing our website, such as an interactive floor map feature. Please access our website at www.beachwalkbali.com.

Beachwalk Shopping Center always presents the unique experiences for customers. The various monthly programs offer more attractions in Kuta and emphasizing beachwalk Shopping Center’s tagline, “Bali Starts Here”.

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Brick-bot Hadrian X to start building residential homes in Australia

HIGH WYCOMBE Australian firm Fastbrick Robotics (FBR) and Australian building material supplier Brickworks have formed a 50/50 joint venture to focus on residential construction.

The joint venture will offer a “Wall as a Service” operation, with FBR’s Hadrian X construction robot laying the bricks and Brickworks providing masonry blocks optimised for use with the machine.

FBR has already received the first shipment of concrete masonry blocks from Brickworks. The blocks are being tested at a new 10,000 sq m facility based in High Wycombe in western Australia.

The joint venture will last three years, but can be extended.

Mike Pivac, FBR’s chief executive, said: “We are very pleased to have a joint venture partner in Australia with the reputation and scale of Brickworks to jointly offer Wall as a Service to the Australian market. The joint venture will demonstrate the capabilities of the Hadrian X and test our business model for the commercialisation of Wall as a Service.”

In November 2018, Hadrian X built a complete house in three days, and in July 2017, Caterpillar announced that it would buy $2m (£1.53m) shares in FBR. FBR said in a recent press release that it is planning “global commercialisation” of its operations. (net)

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Hard hat with brain protection system to be launched

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Swedish helmet safety firm MIPS has teamed up with industrial safety firm Guardio to offer the world’s first hard hat with a MIPS brain protection system.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish helmet safety firm MIPS has teamed up with industrial safety firm Guardio to offer the world’s first hard hat with a MIPS brain protection system.

Already popular among motorcycle and bicycle helmet manufacturers, MIPS (which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System) has developed its brain protection system after more than 20 years of research with the Royal Institute of Technology and the Karolinska University in Stockholm.

Now the firm is targeting the construction industry’s hard hat, citing figures from the US-based

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that the construction sector has the greatest number of both fatal and non-fatal traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in US workplaces.

Guardio has partnered with MIPS to create the Armet helmet, which will be available from June this year.

The helmet will feature the MIPS brain protection system, which is designed to reduce the rotational motion transmitted to the brain from angled impacts to the head. Rotational motion can affect the brain and increase the risk of minor and severe brain injuries. MIPS’ added protection system has been proven

to reduce the rotational motion when implemented in a helmet by absorbing and redirecting energies and forces otherwise transmitted to the brain, the company claimed.

“We are very excited about the partnership with Guardio which means that we now can add protection to safety helmets as well,” said Max Strandwitz, CEO of MIPS. “This is a new category for us but a category that MIPS have been looking at for a long time. Guardio is a partner that shares our values and we are looking forward to when the helmet will be released on the market.” (net)

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Jokowi will open BAF XLI

Thousands of artists to be involved, 220 art shows to be performed

DENPASAR — Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XLI 2019 will be held on June 15-July 13. Featuring the theme “Bayu Pramana (Glorifying Wind Resources),” this year’s BAF brings the spirit of the new era of Bali. Although it is an old theme having been formulated for a long time, “Bayu Pramana” seems to be connected with the vision of Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali.

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Deputy Chairperson II of the BAF XLI Organizing Committee, I Gede Arya Sugiartha, at the plenary meeting in Jayasabha, the office of Bali Governor, said on Monday (May 13) there are 7 main materials in the BAF consisting of march, parade, competition, performance, workshop, exhibition and gathering. As scheduled, the parade will be released by the governor and carried out in front of the Bajra Sandi Monument, Renon, Denpasar, on June 15 at 14:00.

Thousands of artists are involved, both contingents of the districts / municipality and contingents outside the region and overseas. After that, it will be resumed with the opening at Ardha Candra Amphitheater, Bali Cultural Park.

“President of the Republic of Indonesia will be present to give a speech while officially opening the Bali Art Festival XLI at Ardha Candra,” said this Chancellor of Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar.

Arya Sugiartha added that the opening session in the evening will be filled with Pendet Dance performance by 20 selected elementary school students, as well as the Bali Padma Bhuwana Dance oratory performance. Even though it features the story of Dalem Waturenggong, the performance remains in accordance with the vision of Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali. It contains the hope that Bali will be regaining its golden period in the current leadership of Governor Wayan Koster as occurred

during the reign of King Udayana and Dalem Waturenggong.

After the opening, for almost a month the community will be entertained with a total of 220 art performances paraded, contested, performed or workshop. Apart from thousands of artists from 9 districts / municipality in Bali, the BAF also involves 21 outside region participants and 11 foreign participants, including the exhibition of handicrafts, fine arts, traditional Balinese buildings, and culinary industries.

“There is no festival like this in any country. All people participate in the event throught the concept of devotional work or ngayah,” he added.

Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, said the BAF must be a medium to promote Balinese culture especially the efforts to protect and preserve classical and traditional arts. Besides, it must also contain dimensions of development and empowerment. “In terms of content, there has been preservation, development and empowerment.

However, they are still dominant in conservation,” he affirmed.

Especially for the parade, Koster saw the overall concept has been neat. However, he is more inclined to invite the president to be present at the opening rather than releasing the parade. He considered the parade will take a long time around two hours. Besides, the atmosphere is hot and crowded so that it is less representative for the president to greet the public. Meanwhile at Ardha Candra, it is considered to

be more orderly, comfortable, and magnificent so that the president’s direction can be better heard by the audience.

“However, we are still making an effort so that he will be willing to be present at the parade and opening,” added this Chairman of the PDIP Bali.

Koster added the exhibition booths in this year’s BAF are not subject to rental fees or free of charge. The exhibitors remain to pass through the selection process at the Industry and Trade Agency to be adjusted to the criteria and

quota of the booths. The committee is aware that small and medium industry players do not have many advantages. If they are still burdened with rental fee, it will certainly be difficult to move forward. Not to mention, the revenue from rental booths is actually not too large for the Bali provincial government.

“In the past, the exhibitors should pay but in the new era they are not necessary to pay. There has been a new Governor Regulation stating if the stands are made free of charge,” he explained.

President of Indonesia Joko Widodo will open BAF XLI

Although remaining to still prioritize quality, Koster hoped that the exhibition can be more orderly, healthy (for culinary) and the products may not be sold at too expensive prices. His committee wanted that all parties involved in the BAF, including people making a visit, should feel cheerful and happy like in a real ‘party.’ On the other hand, he also ensured the exhibitors are not only “those very same craftsmen.” “In the past, these are brought by those and those are brought by these, while I myself do not bring anyone,” he concluded. (kmb32)

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Denpasar Police deploy officers to monitor convoy of high school students DENPASAR - Scribbling on clothes and convoys when celebrating high school / vocational school graduation took place on Monday (May 13). Denpasar Police deployed all forces to monitor and supervise them.

“All of my strength is mobilized to anticipate the euphoria of celebrating the graduation day by high school and vocational high school students. In addition to the Ngurah

Rai Stadium, they also gather at Nusa Dua Lagoon Square,” said Operation Division Head of Denpasar Police, I Nyoman Gatra.

According to Gatra, his institution deployed all the Patrol Units on duty and the Riot Squad, especially the Police of Traffic Affair. It is meant to prevent traffic violations because they are in groups. Moreover, Bali has been made into an orderly traffic model according to

the Commander Wish of the Bali Police Chief, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose.

“We do not let them be reckless on the road because they are our next generation so that they must be fostered,” said this former Chief of Benoa Water Area Police.

Other than the Police of Traffic Affairs, Patrol Unit and Riot Squad, his institution also deployed a closed patrol unit, intelligence

and security as well as and criminal investigation agency. “Prior to carrying out convoys, we gave them briefing so that they are more orderly on the road,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Badung Police Traffic Affairs, Kanisius, said that monitoring and supervision against the convoy celebrating the graduation of high school / vocational school students is also carried out on the

Denpasar-Petang route. He made coordination with the Abiansemal and Petang Police to jointly carry out surveillance. “We encourage them to use helmets and create orderly traffic,” he said.

Regarding traffic accidents experienced by convoy participants in the area of Petang, Kanisius said there are no reports because the victims were only slightly injured. (kmb36)

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Application of admission ticket to Waterblow

at IDR 15,000 for domestic tourists and IDR 25,000 for foreign tourists. The tariff application is based on the Decree of Badung Regent No.17/041 / HK / 2018. “Well, the tariff determination has been approved by the Badung Tourism Office,” he said.

He said that after arranging in the area, visitors coming to the Waterblow area are also confirmed about their security. Visitors can enjoy the beauty of the bridge from 3 monitoring deck areas. They are even forbidden to go down to the reef for security reason. “The closest deck distance is 15 meters from the cliff. Visitors may not go down to the reef,” he affirmed.

Additionally, during extreme weather conditions, the area is also monitored by security and lifeguard. There are also restrictions on the area based on the situation and wave height information from the National Weather Service (BMKG). “For security reason, visitors are also supervised by security and lifeguard. As for each ticket held, it has been covered with insurance, and the BIMC Siloam Nusa Dua Hospital will be used as a reference in the event of an undesirable event,” he explained. (kmb23)

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Related to the missing Indian tourist

Search terminated due to minimal indications

SEMARAPURA - The search process for Kausal Aditya, 24, an Indian tourist, who was dragged in waves at the Devil’s Tear Cliff, Lembongan village, Nusa Penida, was stopped last Monday (May 13). The effort was stopped after a seven-day search process, but it didn’t work.

During the seven days of sweeping in the middle of the sea, the officers got very minimal indications to find the whereabouts of the victim.

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the admission ticket to Waterblow in the area of ITDC Nusa Dua, South Kuta subdistrict, is complained by visitors.

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During the seven days of sweeping in the middle of the sea, the officers got very minimal indications to find the whereabouts of the victim.

Section Head of Operation and Alert of the Denpasar Search and Rescue, Ida Bagus Surya Wiryawan, when contacted on Monday (May 13) stated the search process for Kausal Aditya last Monday was the last day. According to the rules, it is obligatory to conduct a search for seven days. Nevertheless, the efforts to find the whereabouts of the victim are immediately stopped.

His party remains open if there is information on indication from certain parties which have a clue to the whereabouts of the victim.

“The victim last put on a white shirt and blue pants. If people commonly passing in the area happen to encounter the whereabouts of the victim, please be informed immediately. Of course, we will follow up and we remain open to it,” said Surya Wiryawan.

The last search process on Monday returned to involve a ten-meter Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) of the

National SAR Agency and a similar RIB from Water Police Unit of Bali Police plus a speed boat and three other inflatable boats. The search was also assisted by local fishermen focused around the area where the victim fell. Unfortunately, the results are still found nothing.

Meanwhile, the victim’s family kept trying to encourage all parties to find Kausal Aditya. Moreover, after coming to the office of Denpasar SAR Agency, according to Surya Wirawan, the victim’s family distributed leaflets to Balinese people. Anyone that can find the victim will be rewarded. “It is the initiative from the victim’s family, not from us. But, we have previously spread information to all speed boat masters. If you find the victim, we hope to immediately contact us,” he said.

He did not dare to ascertain whether the victim is still alive or already dead before the victim is

actually found. However, seeing the chronology of the incident to the search for the seventh day is also zero, there is small possibility for the victims to remain safe.

As reported earlier, the ferocious waves around the Batu Belek Cliff or known by tourists with the name of Devil’s Tear returned to claim a fatality on Tuesday afternoon (May 7). A foreign tourist from India, Kausal Aditya, 24, immediately disappeared from the top of the cliff after being struck by the ferocious waves rising up the cliff.

Spokesman of Klungkung Police, Putu Gede Ardana, asked tourists and other residents to be more careful when they are at the place. Visitors should not get too close to the edge of the cliff, so that visitors will not endanger themselves. Regional government plans to gradually install a wooden fence to limit tourists visiting the place. (kmb31)

KOKOPO - In a nation where sexual violence is endemic, women are still targeted and attacked for witchcraft, and female representation in parliament is non-existent, police chief Julie Palakai is blazing a trail for change.

The 43-year-old inspector, a domestic abuse survivor and 18-year veteran of the force, is one of the most senior female police officers in Papua New Guinea -- and is calling on the nation’s women to take a stand against sexism with her.

“Women must strive and rise up against any discrimination, abuse and sexual harassment in the workplace,” she tells AFP. “For young girls who are still struggling: Do not give up but strive for the best to achieve your goals and to find a better and happy life. Nothing is impossible,” she insists.

Human Rights Watch named Papua New Guinea “one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman” in a report which estimated 70 percent of women would be raped or assaulted in their lifetime.

The NGO added that sorcery-related violence remains an issue, adding that women and girls are the “primary targets”, though men too have been attacked in witch-hunts.

None of the country’s 111 parliamentarians are women and there are few women in the police force.Palakai is the only female commissioned officer -- an umbrella term for senior management from inspector grade upwards -- in all of Papua New Guinea’s northeastern Islands Region.

She has worked hard to get to her position battling institutional dis-

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This picture taken on March 4, 2019 shows parade commander Julie Palakai (L) escorting East New Britain’s new residential Judge Justice Stephen Kassman (R) during a guard of honour parade outside Kokopo Police station in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

Badung Tourism Office claims there is no agreement yet MANGUPURA - Even though it has begun to apply, the admission ticket to Waterblow in the area of ITDC Nusa Dua, South Kuta subdistrict, is complained by visitors.

Domestic visitors claimed that the rate charged is not in accordance with the object offered or those in the area. Besides, the application of admission ticket has not yet been agreed by the Badung district government.

The Badung Tourism Office having the authority to set forth the tariff and the cooperation agreement admitted there was no agreement with the ITDC. Head of the Badung Tourism Office, I Made Badra, said that determination of the admission ticket to the Waterblow location had not yet been agreed. “It (admission ticket) has not yet been discussed. Tomorrow (May 14) it will just be discussed at the Badung Civic Center including the cooperation agreement,” he said when confirmed on Monday (May 13).

Meanwhile, Operations Division Head of the ITDC Nusa Dua, Made Pariwijaya, claimed that the tariff is made after getting approval from the Badung Tourism Office. So, his management started to collect admission ticket from May 1, 2019

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crimination, abuse, and rigid cultural expectations.

Palakai now heads the Public Safety Unit at Kokopo Police Station: It’s a role that’s highly visible -- she leads the prestigious Guard of Honour parade. Dressed in crisp police blues and wielding a large silver sword, she proudly marches judges, superior officers and other dignitaries -- almost always male -- up and down Guard of Honour lines. It’s a rare sight in the male-dominated nation, and a role that requires total respect from subordinates. “When inviting and escorting an important officer or VIP on parade, we are actually inspecting each individual on parade,” she says.

Palakai came from a broken family and while she finished secondary school, any plans for further education were disrupted when her home town of Rabaul, was devastated by twin volcanic eruptions in 1994.

Instead, she took a job as a sales rep for a stationary firm in the area but soon became restless. By chance, she saw an advert from the police in the local paper and decided to respond to their search for new recruits.

She was shocked to be selected, Palakai conceded, but happily took the six-month training course near capital Port Moresby before being posted to Lihir, an island best known for gold-mining.

“I was just a young policewoman

officer posted out there to lead, manage and command officers older than me, very experienced and long-serving policemen and women,” she said of the role as station commander.

“You have to learn to think fast during states of emergency or in everyday situations whilst on normal police duties, and make prompt and wise decisions,” she added.

Palakai was ambitious, but like many women in Papua New Guinea, she found her partner was not receptive to her career aspirations.

“I had to leave him as I could not see any better future with him given...the disrespectful behaviour that I could not stand any longer,” she told AFP. “He often argued telling me that I was just a woman and policemen and women will not listen to my instructions and orders and that women had no power to lead,” she recalled.

In May 2013 she became a commissioned officer, graduating along with four other female officers placed around the country, and 20 male colleagues at a ceremony overseen by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.

Since then she has championed the push to encourage women to actively invest in their future.

She explains: “Education does not stop when you are young or old.

Where there is opportunity, go for it, as education is your future.” (afp)

MINUWANGODA - Parts of Sri Lanka were under indefinite curfew Tuesday and social media off-limits after a man was killed by swordwielding rioters in an escalating anti-Muslim backlash following the Easter terror attacks.

Violence broke out late Monday, three weeks after Islamist extremist bombings killed 258 people, with rampaging mobs carrying out arson attacks and 2,000 people vandalising a mosque, witnesses said.

A nationwide curfew imposed overnight was raised on Tuesday morning except for the North-Western Province (NWP) where police said a 45-year-old Muslim man was slaughtered in his carpentry shop by a crowd carrying swords.

Police said Tuesday that 13 people had been arrested including Amith Weerasinghe, a man from Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhist Sinhalese community on bail for his role in similar riots in March last year in the central Kandy district.

Elsewhere in NWP north of Colombo, the attackers, who outnumbered police and security forces, set fire to Muslim-owned shops, vandalised homes and smashed windows, furniture and fittings inside several mosques.

In the adjoining Gampaha district, men on motorbikes led arson attacks in the town of Minuwangoda, 45 kilometres (30 miles) north of Colombo, local residents told AFP. “They were from out of town,” an owner of an electronic goods store told AFP by telephone.

“After they started smashing Muslim shops and throwing petrol bombs, the locals joined in.”

- ‘Police did nothing’ He said police and security forces appeared to be overwhelmed and that by the time troops fired in the air to disperse the mobs it was too late.

A pasta factory owned by a Muslim businessman burned to the ground after unidentified attackers threw burning tyres inside.

“Police and security forces also did not do anything to put out the fire,” the owner of Diamond Pasta, Ashraf Jifthy, told AFP by telephone.

“Three of my Muslim workers were injured while trying to escape from the burning factory.”

A mosque in Minuwangoda was also stoned.

In the NWP, attackers systematically targeted mosques for two days, local clerics told AFP. In the town of Kinyama, two mosques were smashed as the outnumbered armed police and troops stood by.

“About 2,000 people surrounded our mosque and smashed everything inside, even the bathroom fittings,” cleric M.I.M. Siddeeque told AFP by telephone from the curfew-bound town of Bingiriya.

Video footage of the unrest showed burning shops as mobs armed with sticks and stones roamed the streets attacking Muslim-owned shops.

Police said the curfew in the NWP would continue until further notice.

“Security forces are assisting police who have been ordered to use maximum force to contain the violence,” police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.

Police said they fired in the air and used tear gas at several places to deter people attempting to attack mosques. (afp)

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Heavily-armed Sri Lankan soldiers (L) ride a motorcycle near the Jumha Mosque after a mob attack in Minuwangoda on May 14, 2019.

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Tourism objects in Buleleng district are not only limited to beaches, lakes and waterfalls. Along with its development, riverside is also transformed into an object that is quite capable of attracting travelers to make a visit. For example, it has been done by Tao (shaded) Park at Bantang Banua neighborhood, Sukasada village/subdistrict.

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In this March 5, 2019, file photo, cargo containers are staged near cranes at the Port of Tacoma, in Tacoma, Wash.

China has announced tariff hikes on $60 billion of U.S. goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s escalation of a fight over technology and other trade disputes. The Finance Ministry said Monday, May 13, the penalty duties of 5% to 25% on hundreds of U.S. products including batteries, spinach and coffee take effect June 1. consumers and businesses will bear some of the costs.

“Both sides will pay,” he told Fox News.

In the U.S., prices of soybeans, targeted by Chinese tariffs last year, fell Monday to a 10-year low on fears of a protracted trade war.

In a statement, American Soybean Association President Davie Stevens, a soybean farmer from Clinton, Kentucky, expressed frustration that “the U.S. has been at the table with China 11 times now and still has not closed the deal.

What that means for soybean growers is that we’re losing. Losing a valuable market, losing stable pricing, losing an opportunity to support our families and our communities.”

Trump told reporters Monday that a new program to relieve U.S. farmers’ pain is “being devised right now” and predicted that they will be “very happy.” The administration last year handed farmers aid worth $11 billion to offset losses from trade conflicts.

Trump seemed to suggest that the aid will make up for or partially cover the $15 billion that he said represented “the biggest purchase that China has ever made with our farmers.” In fact, U.S. farm exports to China approached $26 billion in both 2012 and 2013 and came in at $19.5 billion in 2017 before his trade war began taking a toll on agricultural sales to China.

The president’s allies in Congress scrambled

to limit the damage to farm country.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said it is time for U.S. allies to “get in the game” to push China to the negotiating table. “China needs to get with it,” he said. “You can’t move these goalposts like they’re moving them and expect to be respected.”

The highest tariffs announced by China will apply to industrial chemicals, electronic equipment, precision machinery and hundreds of food products.

Beijing is running out of U.S. imports to penalize because of the lopsided trade balance between the world’s two largest economies.

Chinese regulators have instead targeted American companies in China by slowing down the clearing of shipments through customs and the processing of business licenses.

Oxford Economics calculated that the higher tariffs will reduce the U.S. economy by 0.3% in 2020, a loss of $490 per American household.

Similarly, forecasters have warned that the U.S. tariff increases could set back a Chinese recovery that had appeared to be gaining traction.

Growth in the world’s second-largest economy during the January-through-March period held steady at 6.4% compared with a year earlier, supported by higher government spending and bank lending.

The tensions “raise fresh doubts about this

recovery path,” Morgan Stanley economists said. The latest U.S. duties could knock 0.5 percentage points off annual Chinese economic growth, and that could widen to 1 percentage point if both sides extend penalties to all of each other’s exports, economists say. That would pull annual growth below 6%, raising the risk of politically dangerous job losses.

China’s state media tried to reassure businesses and consumers that the ruling Communist Party has the means to respond.

“There is nothing to be afraid of,” said the party newspaper People’s Daily. “The U.S.instigated trade war against China is just a hurdle in China’s development process. It is no big deal.”

Trump has threatened to extend tariffs to the remaining $300 billion or so in Chinese tariffs that haven’t been targeted yet, but told reporters Monday: “I have not made that decision yet.”

The president started raising tariffs last July over complaints China steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology and unfairly subsidizes Chinese businesses that are striving to become global leaders in robotics and other technology.

A stumbling block has been U.S. insistence on an enforcement mechanism with penalties to ensure Beijing carries out its commitments. (ap)

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BEIJING - Sending Wall Street into a slide, China announced higher tariffs Monday on $60 billion worth of American goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest penalties on Chinese products.

Duties of 5% to 25% will take effect on June 1 on about 5,200 American products, including batteries, spinach and coffee, China’s Finance Ministry said.

With investors worried about the potential economic damage on all sides from the escalating trade war, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 617 points, or 2.4%, and the technologyheavy Nasdaq plunged 270 points, or 3.4%, its biggest drop of the year. Earlier, stocks fell in Europe and Asia.

“We appear to be in a slow-motion train wreck, with both sides sticking to their positions,” said William Reinsch, a trade analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. trade official. “As is often the case, however, the losers will not be the negotiators or presidents, but the people.”

Beijing’s move came after the U.S. raised duties Friday on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25%, up from 10%. In doing so, American officials accused China of backtracking on commitments it made in earlier negotiations. The same day, trade talks between the two countries broke up without an agreement.

On Twitter, Trump warned Xi that China “will be hurt very badly” if it doesn’t agree to a trade deal. Trump tweeted that Beijing “had a great deal, almost completed, & you backed out!” The rising trade hostilities could damage the economies of both countries. The tariff increases already in place have disrupted trade in such American products as soybeans and medical equipment and sent shockwaves through other Asian economies that supply Chinese factories.

Still, the two countries have given themselves something of an escape hatch: The higher Chinese tariffs don’t kick in for 2½ weeks. The U.S. increases apply to Chinese goods shipped since Friday, and those shipments will take about three weeks to arrive at U.S. seaports and become subject to the higher charges.

Also, both countries have indicated more talks are likely. Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that China has invited U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to Beijing. But nothing has been scheduled. And Trump said Monday that he expects to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in late June at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

The president has repeatedly insisted that increased tariffs on Chinese goods don’t hurt American consumers. But Kudlow, head of the president’s National Economic Council, acknowledged over the weekend that U.S.

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The park newly opened last month is right on the bank of the Banyumala River that offers crystal clear water and heavy water flow.

It is quite easy to get to the park. Visitors from Denpasar can find first the intersection of Three Monument or Sangket Terminal.

Approximately 400 meters to the west, the location can be immediately found. At that time, the eyes will be immediately pampered by verdant trees and the rush of river water remaining to look very clear.

Such an atmosphere will be able to directly eliminate your fatigue after a hectic activity.

When making a visit to the object, you cannot just take photos but also unwind, sit on some chairs and tables and gazebo lining at the edge of the river. Then, it looks more beautiful when equipped with colorful umbrellas looking like a rainbow. If you are hungry, do not worry. Various culinary delicacies and drinks can be easily found at this location.

The park owner, Made Yasamada, said the making of the park covering an area of ??26.5 square meters was inspired by his concern over the river that is used as a landfill. Vile impression cannot be avoided. “Initially, this location was very dirty. Then, I cleaned it up and instantly made into a park,” he said not long ago.

Since the initial opening, the park has been able to attract people to make a visit, especially those of young age. For instance, Dea, a teenager form Busungbiu, is intrigued to visit because it is haunted by her curiosity after seeing a post on social media. “It’s very nice. The air is cool and very quiet. Besides, it is suitable for a visit,” she said.

Clean river fitted with river stones also attracts visitors to make it into the background of their photos. In addition, visitors would also like to enjoy the cool mountain water, so infrequently visitors take a bath at the location. With a myriad of sensations, this park should be included in your traveling agenda. (kmb)

‘Julia Roberts Point’ Increasingly Visited by More Tourists

Since it was used for film shooting of the Eat, Pray, Love starred by famous artist Julia Roberts, the lava area at Toya Bungkah Batur, Kintamani is now visited by many tourists. Each day, there are always tourists especially those coming to just look around the existing natural beauty on the edge of Lake Batur.

To get to the shooting location of the Eat, Pray, Love or all this time known as the Julia Roberts Point, visitors must walk about 500 meters long from the highway.

This happens because there is no road access to the location. Along the way, visitors will pass through volcanic rocks and a variety of horticultural crops such as onions, tomatoes and peppers cultivated by local residents. To find out the shooting location, visitors can read directly an information board

on the edge of the lake. The short information is bilingually written in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

One of the local residents, Putu Ariana, said that since the location was used for film shooting, the pillow lava area is visited by many tourists, mostly consisting of foreign tourists. “Not long ago, my brother took tourists from Australia to this location,” he explained.

Visitors coming to the Julia Roberts Point are usually driven by curiosity with natural beauty featured in the film. He said that before used as a shooting location, it was rarely visited by tourists. Most tourists coming to Toya Bungkah will skip this location. “But now, more and more tourists are coming here.

Other than to Julia Roberts Point, they also visit the area of Batur caldera,” he said.

Now, to keep the area of Batur caldera including the Julia Roberts Point clean, hundreds of residents from several villages came down to pick up plastic waste in the region of Toya Bungkah, Wednesday (Mar. 2). At least, one truck of plastic waste could be collected and disposed of to regional landfill at Landih.

Headman of Songan B, Jero Lanang, said that the cleanup action to collect plastic waste will be carried out continuously. The 15 villages in the lakeside area are expected to get involved so that sanitation of the terrestrial garden is well maintained. “All this time, the Batur Geopark is known quite unclean. Through this action, we invite the community to participate in maintaining the sanitation of the geopark area,” he said. (kmb)

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WhatsApp urges update after ‘serious’ security breach

SAN FRANCISCO - WhatsApp on Tuesday encouraged its users to upgrade the app to plug a security breach that allowed sophisticated attackers to sneak spyware into phones, in the latest trouble for its parent Facebook.

The vulnerability -- first reported by the Financial Times, and fixed in the latest WhatsApp update -- allowed hackers to insert malicious software on phones by calling the target using the app, which is used by 1.5 billion people around the world.

“WhatsApp encourages people to upgrade to the latest version of our app, as well as keep their mobile operating system up to date, to protect against potential targeted exploits designed to compromise information stored on mobile devices,” a spokesperson said in a statement to AFP. The FT cited a spyware dealer as saying the tool was developed by a shadowy Israel-based firm called the NSO Group, which has been accused of helping governments from the Middle East to Mexico snoop on activists and journalists.

And security researchers said the malicious code bore similarities to other tech developed by

the firm, according to The New York Times.

The latest exploit -- which impacts Android devices and Apple’s iPhones, among others -- was discovered earlier this month and WhatsApp scrambled to fix it, rolling out an update in less than 10 days.

The firm did not comment on the number of users affected or who targeted them, and said it had reported the matter to US authorities.

It also informed authorities in Ireland about the “serious security vulnerability”, according to a statement by the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC).

“The DPC is actively engaging with WhatsApp Ireland to determine if and to what extent any WhatsApp EU user data has been affected,” it said.

It echoed WhatsApp in encouraging users to update the app, as “the possibility remains that EU users were affected”.

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In this file photo taken on December 28, 2016 A picture taken on December 28, 2016 in Paris shows the logo of WhatsApp mobile messaging service.

The breach is the latest in a series of issues troubling WhatsApp’s parent Facebook, which has faced intense criticism for allowing its users’ data to be harvested by research companies and over its slow response to Russia using the platform as a means to spread disinformation during the 2016 US election campaign.

- Highly invasive software -

The WhatsApp spyware is sophisticated and “would be available to only advanced and highly motivated actors”, the company said, adding that a “select number of users were targeted”.

“This attack has all the hallmarks of a private company that works with a number of governments around the world” according to initial investigations, it added, but did not name the firm.

WhatsApp has briefed human rights organizations on the matter, but did not identify them.

The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, said in a tweet it believed an attacker tried to target a human rights lawyer as recently as Sunday using this flaw, but was blocked by WhatsApp. The N SO G roup came to prominence in 2016 when researchers accused it of helping spy on an activist in the United Arab Emirates. Its best-known product is Pegasus, a highly invasive tool that can reportedly switch on a target’s phone camera and microphone, and access data on it.

The firm said Tuesday that it only licenses its software to governments for “fighting crime and terror”.

The NSO Group “does not operate the system, and after a rigorous licensing and vetting process, intelligence and law enforcement determine how to use the technology to support their public safety missions”, it said in a statement to AFP. “We investigate any credible allegations of misuse and if necessary, we take action, including shutting down the system.” (afp)

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Lessons from the first lady? Brigitte Macron to return to classroom

PARIS - French first lady Brigitte Macron, a career-long teacher, is set to return to the classroom in a new chain of adult training colleges that she is helping set up.

Macron, a French and drama teacher until 2015, has accepted a supervisory and teaching role for two schools being built, one in a suburb of Paris and another in a rural area of southeast France.

On Monday, she visited the first of the schools by the “Institut des Vocations”, which is also backed rap star Ben J and celebrity chef Thierry Marx and is being financed

by French luxury giant LVMH. The school in the povertywracked Clichy-sous-Bois suburb in northeast Paris will open its doors in September along with another facility near Valence in southeast France, offering courses to around 50 school dropouts aged 25-30 every year.

“It won’t be like the lessons that I gave to pupils before, but more in the Anglo-Saxon style, interactive,” the 66-year-old, who taught at prestigious private schools in her home town of Amiens as well as in Paris, told reporters.

She said the school aimed to give its students, who will be paid 1,000 euros (1,100 dollars) a month, “the foundations to be able to enter the workplace.

“We know they need to know the four operations in maths, to know how to write French, to express themselves, to construct arguments in a written text. I want to give them a taste for literature,” she added.

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Outside Africa, human monkeypox infections have only been previously reported in the United States, Britain and Israel - according to the US Centres For Disease Control and Prevention.

The disease - which is called monkeypox because it was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958 - was first identified in humans in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In 2015, a mass outbreak of 360 Group B Streptococcus infection cases occurred in Singapore, with two fatalities. About 150 of the more serious cases were linked to the consumption of raw freshwater fish. First case of monkeypox in Singapore: 3 other rare infectious diseases seen here previously

Brigitte met Emmanuel Macron, 41, while he was a student in her school in Amiens and began a relationship with him while he was still a teenager, causing a minor scandal locally and anger in their families.

The mother-of-three said that other private companies were interested in following the example of LVMH and sponsoring other adult schools, which are designed to tackle France’s chronic high unemployment rate.

“We are going to duplicate it,” she said, adding that oil group Total had expressed an interest in investing in others.

Brigitte Macron has kept a low public profile since her husband’s election victory in May 2017, accompanying him for major state events but giving few interviews.

She became entangled in an early public row shortly after he took office over plans to create a formal public position of first lady, which would have given her an office and a budget -- an idea Macron abandoned under pressure.

The lover of theatre and literature, who remains political advisor to her husband behind the scenes, had announced that she intends to devote her time to her twin causes of education and helping the handicapped.

Rapper Ben J -- real name Fabien Loubayi -- said the new schools aimed to provide opportunities “to the invisible, people I see during my concerts. It’s important to offer them a hand up, to give them confidence in themselves.” (afp) First case of monkeypox in Singapore: 6 things to know about the virus The man who brought in the virus arrived in Singapore on April 28, Singapore’s Health Ministry said in a statement late last Thursday (May 9), AFP reported.

The 38-year-old developed symptoms two days later and is currently isolated at an infectious disease centre in a stable condition, the ministry said.

At least 23 individuals who were in close contact with the man have been traced, and those who are in Singapore will be quarantined and monitored for 21 days as a precaution, the ministry said.

One left Singapore on May 5, before the Nigerian was diagnosed, but has since made contact with the city’s health authorities and has reported that he is well. (afp)

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Indonesia remembers victims of IS-family suicide bombings

An Indonesian church on Monday remembered the victims of suicide bombings carried out by an Islamic State-inspired family, one year on from the attacks that highlighted the extremist group’s global reach.

On May 13 last year, a family of six -- including two girls aged nine and 12 -- blew themselves up at the Santa Maria Catholic Church and two other churches in Surabaya during Sunday morning services, killing over a dozen congregants and wounding scores more.

The next day, a family who went to the same Koranic study group as the first attackers staged suicide bombings at a police station in Indonesia’s second-biggest city, wounding 10.

Several hundred people gathered at the Santa Maria church on Monday for a memorial prayer session and to hear survivor accounts of the bloodshed, which had raised fears that suicide bomber families could be a terrifying new modus operandi for IS. “I have learned to move on and not be traumatised by the attacks because that’s what they (terrorists) want,” said Desmonda, a Christian woman who survived last year’s bombings.

IS claimed the Surabaya bombings and the families were linked to local extremist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which supports IS. Ines Andi, a hijab-wearing Muslim, also attended Monday’s one-year anniversary, which comes weeks after IS claimed similar suicide attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 250.

“As a Surabayan who was born and raised here, I was shocked to hear about the bombings -- more so because the perpetrators were Muslim,” the 27-year-old said.

“So I want to show my solidarity with the victims and hope that this will never happen again. People envy Indonesia for its diversity so we should preserve it,” she added.

It has been a long road to recovery for many Christians who make up about 10 percent of Indonesia’s 260 million citizens.

The Southeast Asian nation’s religious minorities, which also includes Hindus and Buddhists, have been targeted before and fears for their safety have grown as the voices of Islamic hardliners becomes more prominent in public life.

The coordinated Surabaya attacks were the deadliest in years for a country that has struggled with Islamist militancy since the 2002 Bali bombings killed over 200 people, including scores of tourists “It’s hard to overcome the trauma even though it has been a year,” Rachmat Harjono Tengadi said after a service on Sunday at the Indonesian Christian Church.

The 56-year-old was struck by shrapnel after a mother and her two young daughters, dressed in body covering burqa veils, blew themselves up outside the church.

“Even now if I see somebody wearing a black burqa, my heart feels sick,” Tengadi said. Tengadi’s church opted not to hold a special memorial on Monday’s anniversary over fears it could be painful for congregants.

“We thought it wasn’t a good memory so we’d better not hold any commemoration at all,” said church official Daniel Theophilus Hage. (afp)

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Indonesian Muslims gather during a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of deadly suicide bombings carried out one year ago, outside the Saint Mary Catholic Church in Surabaya on May 13, 2019. An Indonesian church on May 13 remembered the victims of suicide bombings carried out by an Islamic State-inspired family, one year on from the attacks that highlighted the extremist group’s global reach.

Kalla stops over in Qatar prior to Geneva visit

DOHA - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla landed at the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, as a stopover in his journey to Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

Kalla and his wife Mufidah, on arrival at the airport at 5:20 a.m. local time, were extended a warm welcome by Indonesian

Ambassador to Qatar Muhammad Basri Sidehabi and Indonesian Defense Attaché for Iran and Qatar Colonel (Mar) Harwin Dicky Wijanarko.

The vice president thereafter headed to the special waiting room and is scheduled to take a 6.5-hour flight at 8:05 a.m. local time to Geneva.

Kalla and his entourage are expected to land at the Cointrin International Airport in Geneva at 1:35 p.m. local time.

According to vice presidential spokesman Husain Abdullah, Kalla is expected to hold bilateral discussions with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail at Hotel Beau

Rivage on Wednesday (May 15).

The vice president will thereafter attend an event “The Christchurch Call to Action” and a Dinner Tech for Good Summit in Paris, France. The meeting will cover discussion on the latest terror attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

On Thursday (May 16), Kalla

will also deliver a national address at the forum Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction to be held at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG).

At the meeting, Kalla will highlight Indonesia’s efforts to lower disaster risks and restoration measures to handle the impacts of disaster. (ant)

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The Drop-Off/Wall AMLAPURA - This site, an old lava flow from Mount Agung, is at the opposite end of the bay from the Wreck (about 15min walk along the stony beach). The dive starts off on a steep sand slope with nudibranches, flounders, goby/ shrimp sets. At 12m are sponges with many varieties of shrimp, Leaf Scorpionfish abound and there are many crinoids, often with attendant Ghost Pipefish. Continuing round to the R, the slope develops into a reef

with very impressive topography, becoming a vertical wall from 15M and descending to below 60m. Visibility – best in the morning – is usually 15-20M (due to the amount of plankton in the water) and, because of the location, it is rare that there is a current, even a mild one.

The wall has profuse sponges, corals, black coral bushes, gorgonian fans – at 30M there’s one that reaches 2M in width that we visit for the Deep Dive on Advanced

Courses. The wall, the lava spur, then reverts to being a steep slope.

The fish life is similar to that found on the wreck but being a much larger area, is less dense. However, more often than on the Wreck, you will see white tip reef shark, large Napoleon Wrasse, big Bumphead Parrotfish, some big Filefish (including Scrawled), and large Moray Eel. Late afternoon is the time to see the wide variety of Lionfish that live here, I’m not the person to ask why we see so many of them! There have been sightings of Whale Shark in as little as 9M of water, and much deeper, Hammerhead Shark.

The back reef at the top of the Wall, averaging 5M, contains an excellent ‘aquarium section’, including cuttlefish, octopus, boxer crabs and many other unexpected treasures, enabling you to finish your dive at around 5m for pretty much as long as you want to. This is, of course, also very popular with snorkellers. (IBP/net)

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Stephen Curry #30 and Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors speak to the media after Game Six of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Houston Rockets during the 2019 NBA Playoffs on May 10, 2019 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

Curry brother rivalry adds spice to NBA Western Conference finals

ROME - Roger Federer insisted Monday his focus at this week’s Italian Open was on getting more match practice on clay ahead of the French Open in two weeks time.

The 20-time Grand Slam winner has not played on the red clay in the Foro Italico since 2015 when he finished runner-up for the fourth time, losing to Novak Djokovic in the final.

“Regardless of what happens here, I just think it’s good for me to play matches at this stage,” said world number three Federer before his first match on Wednesday.

He has a first-round bye as the number three seed, and will begin his tournament against either American Frances Tiafoe or Portugal’s Joao Sousa.

The 37-year-old’s performance in the Madrid Open last week has boosted his hopes of winning the French Open, a decade after his only title there.

He fell in the quarter-finals on Friday to Dominic Thiem, but twice held match point and for a set and a half was dominant against a player considered among the favourites for Roland Garros after Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

“I think I was playing well in Madrid, so I just said, again, ‘Let’s come to Rome, a city I like so much as well’.

“Madrid is a tough place to play.

I felt like playing somewhat maybe more sea level conditions would be good for me.

“There would be excitement, more excitement than me coming to a practice court in Switzerland.

“I think this week, then next week in Paris, it’s going to be interesting to see how I play the points, how I do it all.”

His arrival in the Italian capital has been a boost for organisers who

doubled ticket prices after it was announced he would be playing.

“That’s obviously disappointing to hear,” said Federer.

“I just really hope it doesn’t take away the fact I’m really happy to be here.”

- ‘New wave coming through’ Federer is in the same half of the draw as eight-time Rome winner Rafael Nadal, who is looking for his first clay title this season before his French Open title defence.

“I have other problems first getting there,” said Federer, who could meet the Spaniard in the semi-final.

A potential quarter-final awaits against either Stefanos Tsitsipas, the eighth seed, who beat Nadal in the Madrid semi-finals, or Italian 10th seed Fabio Fognini, the Monte Carlo winner.

“I thought Stefanos was very impressive against him (Nadal) last week,” continued Federer.

“I think it’s going to be a good season. It’s going to be interesting to see who is going to make the World Tour Finals, especially if so many guys have won especially big titles, like Fabio in Monaco.

“There is a bit of a new wave coming through with the one-handed backhand that can counter some of Rafa’s spins and lefty play.

“But, again, this is maybe also just a moment in time. We’ll see what happens for the rest of the year.

“It’s announcing to be a very exciting season, even a more complicated one for the top guys next year, I believe, because this is the year where they truly are breaking through, truly are gaining a lot of experience.

“Especially for the clay-courters.” (afp)

LOS ANGELES - Golden State Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry and Portland Trail Blazers guard Seth Curry will make a little history when they clash in the NBA’s Western Conference finals starting on Tuesday.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau it will be the first time a pair of brothers have played each other in a conference final -- and the first time two brothers have clashed in the playoffs since Spain’s Marc Gasol and the Grizzlies took on Pau Gasol’s Spurs in the 2017 first round.

Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, 31, will be playing in a fifth straight conference final, while Seth will be fighting for an NBA Finals berth for the first time.

“So many years I’ve watched Steph play in the Western Conference final, the NBA finals --

being in the crowd,” 28-year-old Seth said after the Trail Blazers edged the Denver Nuggets 10096 in game seven of their secondround series on Sunday.

“It’s going to be fun to be out there on the court, competing to get to the finals. It’s a dream come true for us two.”

It might seem like a nightmare scenario for the brothers’ parents, former Charlotte Hornets star Dell Curry and Sonya Curry, but Sonya told US sports broadcaster ESPN it was a win-win for the family.

“From our end, to see both of our sons to compete at this level and for the goal to be a

championship is such a blessing,” she said. “We never could imagine this.

“One of them might go home, but we’re going to the championship.”

The Curry parents have been travelling the country watching their sons’ playoff games. Dell Curry told ESPN their biggest dilemma now will be deciding “who represents who.” But his wife had a solution for which parent will wear Blazers gear and which will sport Warriors colors.

“We are flipping a coin every game,” she said. (afp)

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Roger Federer of Switzerland looks on during a press conference at the ATP Masters tennis tournament at the Foro Italico in Rome on May 14, 2019.

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Herrera confident Solskjaer can restore United’s lustre

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer possesses the qualities necessary to restore Manchester United as a genuine title contender, according to departing midfielder Anders Herrera.

The 29-year-old Spanish international -- who has been linked to a move to French champions Paris Saint-Germain -- believes the common decency of Solskjaer will be rewarded with better performances on the pitch.

Solskjaer’s star faded almost as soon as he was given the job full-time after a terrific spell as caretaker manager following the sacking of Jose Mourinho in December.

The former United striker guided them to 14 wins in 17 games but the end of the season has been nothing short of a disaster as they lost eight of their last 12 -- ending up 32 points off city rivals and champions Manchester City -- and missed out on Champions League football next term.

“He is one of the best people I have ever met in football,” said Herrera, quitting United after the club declined to offer him a new contract when he demanded increased wages of £300,000 ($388,000) a week.

“Everyone loves him in the dressing room. Everyone wants to fight for him. “When you have the players behind you and wanting to fight for you, part of the job is done.

“I believe in karma and if you are a good person, if you are honest and sincere with the players and the fans, sooner or later it will work.

“I think Ole is the right person because he has qualities and knowledge but also he is a great man and a great person.”

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Bayern captain Neuer in race to be fit for Bundesliga title decider

Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has admitted that he may not be fit to play in Saturday’s Bundesliga title decider against Eintracht Frankfurt.

The Bayern captain has been sidelined with a calf injury since mid-April, and had hoped to return to full fitness in time for last weekend’s visit to RB Leipzig.

He is now in danger of missing the last league game of the season on Saturday, in which Bayern hope to wrap up a seventh successive Bundesliga title.

“I still have the Frankfurt game in my sights,” said Neuer on Monday at a ceremony in which he was presented with a Bavarian state medal for the work of his children’s charity, the Manuel Neuer Kids Foundation.

“Whether I can play or not I can’t say. I am working hard on it and we will have to see how it looks from one day to the next,” he said.

Two points ahead of title rivals Borussia Dortmund, reigning champions Bayern could still be dethroned if they lose to Frankfurt and Dortmund beat Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday.

Yet Neuer said he was “optimistic” that Bayern would win the title for the seventh straight year.

The 33-year-old goalkeeper also missed out on last season’s title win, after missing most of the season with a metatarsal fracture.

Second-choice goalkeeper Sven Ulreich, who stepped in for Neuer both last season and in recent weeks, said that he was ready to play in Saturday’s title decider.

“If Manu is able to train and play then he will play, but otherwise I will try to help the team, and I am preparing for that,” Ulreich told Kicker magazine on Monday. (afp)

- ‘The right person is at the wheel’ -

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Manchester United’s Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera gestures to supporters after the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Cardiff City at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on May 12, 2019.

Herrera, who is likely to be followed out the door by a slew of players in the close season, added Solskjaer and his coaching staff needed the fans to be patient as the turn around will take time.

Solskjaer showed there was a harder edge to him when he cancelled an end-of-season review with the players because he was so angry at the limp display in the 2-0 home defeat by relegated Cardiff in their final match of the season.

“I really believe in Ole. I really believe in Michael (Carrick), Kieran (McKenna), Mick Phelan, in Demps (Mark Dempsey), but I think there is a tough job ahead,” said Herrera.

“They (the coaches) need time because this is not going to be from the first day. The club will need time, confidence and support.

“I am sure they will give it but the only thing I ask for them is time because this is not easy. “(But) the right person is at the wheel. He’s the right person.”

Aside from Herrera veteran defender Antonio Valencia is also leaving on a free transfer, whilst several others including Juan Mata, inconsistent French World Cup winner Paul Pogba and even Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku are thought to be on the way out.

According to Tuesday’s Daily Mirror Solskjaer is keen to bring in fresh blood in the shape of Senegalese international central defender Kalidou Koulibaly from Serie A side Napoli and Ivory Coast striker Nicolas Pepe from Ligue 1 outfit Lille.

Koulibaly, the Mirror claims, would cost even more than the £75 million Liverpool paid Southampton for Dutch central defender Virgil van Dijk whilst Pepe would not be cheap either, the paper citing a figure of £45 million. (afp)

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file

In this Dec. 6, 2009 file photo, Roma’s Francesco Totti, left, and teammate Daniele De Rossi celebrate after their team’s 1-0 victory at the end of the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Lazio, in Rome’s Olympic stadium. Roma captain Daniele De Rossi surprisingly announced on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 he is leaving his hometown club after 18 years.

Roma’s ‘beating heart’ De Rossi moving on after 18 years

IBP/net

Captain Daniele De Rossi will bring the curtain down on his 18-year career with Roma at the end of the season, the Serie A side announced on Tuesday.

The 35-year-old former World Cup winning midfielder will play his final game at home against Parma on May 26, but will not be retiring from professional football. “(De Rossi) plans to pursue a new adventure away from Rome,” the club said in a statement. “It will be the end of an era.”

The game could be a crucial one for Roma’s Champions League ambitions next season as last year ’s European semifinalists are sixth in Serie A just one point off fourth place with two games to play.

De Rossi has spent his entire senior career with his hometown team coming through the club’s academy system.

“For 18 years, Daniele has been the beating heart of AS Roma’s team,” said club president Jim Pallotta said.

“We will all shed tears when he pulls on the Giallorossi shirt for the last time against Parma but we respect his desire to prolong his playing career - even if, at almost 36, it will be away from Rome.

“On behalf of everyone at Roma, I’d like to thank Daniele for his incredible dedication to this club and ensure him that our doors will remain open for him to return to the club in a new role whenever he wants.”

Rossi made 615 appearances and scored 63 goals for Roma in all competitions winning the Coppa Italia in 2007 and 2008, and the Supercoppa in 2007.

He took over the captain’s armband from club legend Francesco Totti – the one player ahead of him for Roma appearances – in 2017. He is also the fourth-most capped player for the Italian national team with 117 appearances.

The 2006 World Cup winner retired after Italy failed to qualify for last year’s World Cup, missing the tournament for the first time in 60 years.

De Rossi will hold a press conference at the club’s training centre at Trigoria later on Tuesday. (afp)

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Herrera confident Solskjaer can restore United’s lustre

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer possesses the qualities necessary to restore Manchester United as a genuine title contender, according to departing midfielder Anders Herrera.

The 29-year-old Spanish international -- who has been linked to a move to French champions Paris Saint-Germain -- believes the common decency of Solskjaer will be rewarded with better performances on the pitch.

Solskjaer’s star faded almost as soon as he was given the job full-time after a terrific spell as caretaker manager following the sacking of Jose Mourinho in December.

The former United striker guided them to 14 wins in 17 games but the end of the season has been nothing short of a disaster as they lost eight of their last 12 -- ending up 32 points off city rivals and champions Manchester City -- and missed out on Champions League football next term.

“He is one of the best people I have ever met in football,” said Herrera, quitting United after the club declined to offer him a new contract when he demanded increased wages of £300,000 ($388,000) a week.

“Everyone loves him in the dressing room. Everyone wants to fight for him. “When you have the players behind you and wanting to fight for you, part of the job is done.

“I believe in karma and if you are a good person, if you are honest and sincere with the players and the fans, sooner or later it will work.

“I think Ole is the right person because he has qualities and knowledge but also he is a great man and a great person.”

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Bayern captain Neuer in race to be fit for Bundesliga title decider

Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has admitted that he may not be fit to play in Saturday’s Bundesliga title decider against Eintracht Frankfurt.

The Bayern captain has been sidelined with a calf injury since mid-April, and had hoped to return to full fitness in time for last weekend’s visit to RB Leipzig.

He is now in danger of missing the last league game of the season on Saturday, in which Bayern hope to wrap up a seventh successive Bundesliga title.

“I still have the Frankfurt game in my sights,” said Neuer on Monday at a ceremony in which he was presented with a Bavarian state medal for the work of his children’s charity, the Manuel Neuer Kids Foundation.

“Whether I can play or not I can’t say. I am working hard on it and we will have to see how it looks from one day to the next,” he said.

Two points ahead of title rivals Borussia Dortmund, reigning champions Bayern could still be dethroned if they lose to Frankfurt and Dortmund beat Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday.

Yet Neuer said he was “optimistic” that Bayern would win the title for the seventh straight year.

The 33-year-old goalkeeper also missed out on last season’s title win, after missing most of the season with a metatarsal fracture.

Second-choice goalkeeper Sven Ulreich, who stepped in for Neuer both last season and in recent weeks, said that he was ready to play in Saturday’s title decider.

“If Manu is able to train and play then he will play, but otherwise I will try to help the team, and I am preparing for that,” Ulreich told Kicker magazine on Monday. (afp)

- ‘The right person is at the wheel’ -

Oli SCARFF / AFP

Manchester United’s Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera gestures to supporters after the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Cardiff City at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on May 12, 2019.

Herrera, who is likely to be followed out the door by a slew of players in the close season, added Solskjaer and his coaching staff needed the fans to be patient as the turn around will take time.

Solskjaer showed there was a harder edge to him when he cancelled an end-of-season review with the players because he was so angry at the limp display in the 2-0 home defeat by relegated Cardiff in their final match of the season.

“I really believe in Ole. I really believe in Michael (Carrick), Kieran (McKenna), Mick Phelan, in Demps (Mark Dempsey), but I think there is a tough job ahead,” said Herrera.

“They (the coaches) need time because this is not going to be from the first day. The club will need time, confidence and support.

“I am sure they will give it but the only thing I ask for them is time because this is not easy. “(But) the right person is at the wheel. He’s the right person.”

Aside from Herrera veteran defender Antonio Valencia is also leaving on a free transfer, whilst several others including Juan Mata, inconsistent French World Cup winner Paul Pogba and even Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku are thought to be on the way out.

According to Tuesday’s Daily Mirror Solskjaer is keen to bring in fresh blood in the shape of Senegalese international central defender Kalidou Koulibaly from Serie A side Napoli and Ivory Coast striker Nicolas Pepe from Ligue 1 outfit Lille.

Koulibaly, the Mirror claims, would cost even more than the £75 million Liverpool paid Southampton for Dutch central defender Virgil van Dijk whilst Pepe would not be cheap either, the paper citing a figure of £45 million. (afp)

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file

In this Dec. 6, 2009 file photo, Roma’s Francesco Totti, left, and teammate Daniele De Rossi celebrate after their team’s 1-0 victory at the end of the Serie A soccer match between AS Roma and Lazio, in Rome’s Olympic stadium. Roma captain Daniele De Rossi surprisingly announced on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 he is leaving his hometown club after 18 years.

Roma’s ‘beating heart’ De Rossi moving on after 18 years

IBP/net

Captain Daniele De Rossi will bring the curtain down on his 18-year career with Roma at the end of the season, the Serie A side announced on Tuesday.

The 35-year-old former World Cup winning midfielder will play his final game at home against Parma on May 26, but will not be retiring from professional football. “(De Rossi) plans to pursue a new adventure away from Rome,” the club said in a statement. “It will be the end of an era.”

The game could be a crucial one for Roma’s Champions League ambitions next season as last year ’s European semifinalists are sixth in Serie A just one point off fourth place with two games to play.

De Rossi has spent his entire senior career with his hometown team coming through the club’s academy system.

“For 18 years, Daniele has been the beating heart of AS Roma’s team,” said club president Jim Pallotta said.

“We will all shed tears when he pulls on the Giallorossi shirt for the last time against Parma but we respect his desire to prolong his playing career - even if, at almost 36, it will be away from Rome.

“On behalf of everyone at Roma, I’d like to thank Daniele for his incredible dedication to this club and ensure him that our doors will remain open for him to return to the club in a new role whenever he wants.”

Rossi made 615 appearances and scored 63 goals for Roma in all competitions winning the Coppa Italia in 2007 and 2008, and the Supercoppa in 2007.

He took over the captain’s armband from club legend Francesco Totti – the one player ahead of him for Roma appearances – in 2017. He is also the fourth-most capped player for the Italian national team with 117 appearances.

The 2006 World Cup winner retired after Italy failed to qualify for last year’s World Cup, missing the tournament for the first time in 60 years.

De Rossi will hold a press conference at the club’s training centre at Trigoria later on Tuesday. (afp)

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Federer packing in Rome practice ahead of French Open

The Drop-Off/Wall AMLAPURA - This site, an old lava flow from Mount Agung, is at the opposite end of the bay from the Wreck (about 15min walk along the stony beach). The dive starts off on a steep sand slope with nudibranches, flounders, goby/ shrimp sets. At 12m are sponges with many varieties of shrimp, Leaf Scorpionfish abound and there are many crinoids, often with attendant Ghost Pipefish. Continuing round to the R, the slope develops into a reef

with very impressive topography, becoming a vertical wall from 15M and descending to below 60m. Visibility – best in the morning – is usually 15-20M (due to the amount of plankton in the water) and, because of the location, it is rare that there is a current, even a mild one.

The wall has profuse sponges, corals, black coral bushes, gorgonian fans – at 30M there’s one that reaches 2M in width that we visit for the Deep Dive on Advanced

Courses. The wall, the lava spur, then reverts to being a steep slope.

The fish life is similar to that found on the wreck but being a much larger area, is less dense. However, more often than on the Wreck, you will see white tip reef shark, large Napoleon Wrasse, big Bumphead Parrotfish, some big Filefish (including Scrawled), and large Moray Eel. Late afternoon is the time to see the wide variety of Lionfish that live here, I’m not the person to ask why we see so many of them! There have been sightings of Whale Shark in as little as 9M of water, and much deeper, Hammerhead Shark.

The back reef at the top of the Wall, averaging 5M, contains an excellent ‘aquarium section’, including cuttlefish, octopus, boxer crabs and many other unexpected treasures, enabling you to finish your dive at around 5m for pretty much as long as you want to. This is, of course, also very popular with snorkellers. (IBP/net)

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Stephen Curry #30 and Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors speak to the media after Game Six of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Houston Rockets during the 2019 NBA Playoffs on May 10, 2019 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

Curry brother rivalry adds spice to NBA Western Conference finals

ROME - Roger Federer insisted Monday his focus at this week’s Italian Open was on getting more match practice on clay ahead of the French Open in two weeks time.

The 20-time Grand Slam winner has not played on the red clay in the Foro Italico since 2015 when he finished runner-up for the fourth time, losing to Novak Djokovic in the final.

“Regardless of what happens here, I just think it’s good for me to play matches at this stage,” said world number three Federer before his first match on Wednesday.

He has a first-round bye as the number three seed, and will begin his tournament against either American Frances Tiafoe or Portugal’s Joao Sousa.

The 37-year-old’s performance in the Madrid Open last week has boosted his hopes of winning the French Open, a decade after his only title there.

He fell in the quarter-finals on Friday to Dominic Thiem, but twice held match point and for a set and a half was dominant against a player considered among the favourites for Roland Garros after Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

“I think I was playing well in Madrid, so I just said, again, ‘Let’s come to Rome, a city I like so much as well’.

“Madrid is a tough place to play.

I felt like playing somewhat maybe more sea level conditions would be good for me.

“There would be excitement, more excitement than me coming to a practice court in Switzerland.

“I think this week, then next week in Paris, it’s going to be interesting to see how I play the points, how I do it all.”

His arrival in the Italian capital has been a boost for organisers who

doubled ticket prices after it was announced he would be playing.

“That’s obviously disappointing to hear,” said Federer.

“I just really hope it doesn’t take away the fact I’m really happy to be here.”

- ‘New wave coming through’ Federer is in the same half of the draw as eight-time Rome winner Rafael Nadal, who is looking for his first clay title this season before his French Open title defence.

“I have other problems first getting there,” said Federer, who could meet the Spaniard in the semi-final.

A potential quarter-final awaits against either Stefanos Tsitsipas, the eighth seed, who beat Nadal in the Madrid semi-finals, or Italian 10th seed Fabio Fognini, the Monte Carlo winner.

“I thought Stefanos was very impressive against him (Nadal) last week,” continued Federer.

“I think it’s going to be a good season. It’s going to be interesting to see who is going to make the World Tour Finals, especially if so many guys have won especially big titles, like Fabio in Monaco.

“There is a bit of a new wave coming through with the one-handed backhand that can counter some of Rafa’s spins and lefty play.

“But, again, this is maybe also just a moment in time. We’ll see what happens for the rest of the year.

“It’s announcing to be a very exciting season, even a more complicated one for the top guys next year, I believe, because this is the year where they truly are breaking through, truly are gaining a lot of experience.

“Especially for the clay-courters.” (afp)

LOS ANGELES - Golden State Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry and Portland Trail Blazers guard Seth Curry will make a little history when they clash in the NBA’s Western Conference finals starting on Tuesday.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau it will be the first time a pair of brothers have played each other in a conference final -- and the first time two brothers have clashed in the playoffs since Spain’s Marc Gasol and the Grizzlies took on Pau Gasol’s Spurs in the 2017 first round.

Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, 31, will be playing in a fifth straight conference final, while Seth will be fighting for an NBA Finals berth for the first time.

“So many years I’ve watched Steph play in the Western Conference final, the NBA finals --

being in the crowd,” 28-year-old Seth said after the Trail Blazers edged the Denver Nuggets 10096 in game seven of their secondround series on Sunday.

“It’s going to be fun to be out there on the court, competing to get to the finals. It’s a dream come true for us two.”

It might seem like a nightmare scenario for the brothers’ parents, former Charlotte Hornets star Dell Curry and Sonya Curry, but Sonya told US sports broadcaster ESPN it was a win-win for the family.

“From our end, to see both of our sons to compete at this level and for the goal to be a

championship is such a blessing,” she said. “We never could imagine this.

“One of them might go home, but we’re going to the championship.”

The Curry parents have been travelling the country watching their sons’ playoff games. Dell Curry told ESPN their biggest dilemma now will be deciding “who represents who.” But his wife had a solution for which parent will wear Blazers gear and which will sport Warriors colors.

“We are flipping a coin every game,” she said. (afp)

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Roger Federer of Switzerland looks on during a press conference at the ATP Masters tennis tournament at the Foro Italico in Rome on May 14, 2019.

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WhatsApp urges update after ‘serious’ security breach

SAN FRANCISCO - WhatsApp on Tuesday encouraged its users to upgrade the app to plug a security breach that allowed sophisticated attackers to sneak spyware into phones, in the latest trouble for its parent Facebook.

The vulnerability -- first reported by the Financial Times, and fixed in the latest WhatsApp update -- allowed hackers to insert malicious software on phones by calling the target using the app, which is used by 1.5 billion people around the world.

“WhatsApp encourages people to upgrade to the latest version of our app, as well as keep their mobile operating system up to date, to protect against potential targeted exploits designed to compromise information stored on mobile devices,” a spokesperson said in a statement to AFP. The FT cited a spyware dealer as saying the tool was developed by a shadowy Israel-based firm called the NSO Group, which has been accused of helping governments from the Middle East to Mexico snoop on activists and journalists.

And security researchers said the malicious code bore similarities to other tech developed by

the firm, according to The New York Times.

The latest exploit -- which impacts Android devices and Apple’s iPhones, among others -- was discovered earlier this month and WhatsApp scrambled to fix it, rolling out an update in less than 10 days.

The firm did not comment on the number of users affected or who targeted them, and said it had reported the matter to US authorities.

It also informed authorities in Ireland about the “serious security vulnerability”, according to a statement by the country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC).

“The DPC is actively engaging with WhatsApp Ireland to determine if and to what extent any WhatsApp EU user data has been affected,” it said.

It echoed WhatsApp in encouraging users to update the app, as “the possibility remains that EU users were affected”.

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In this file photo taken on December 28, 2016 A picture taken on December 28, 2016 in Paris shows the logo of WhatsApp mobile messaging service.

The breach is the latest in a series of issues troubling WhatsApp’s parent Facebook, which has faced intense criticism for allowing its users’ data to be harvested by research companies and over its slow response to Russia using the platform as a means to spread disinformation during the 2016 US election campaign.

- Highly invasive software -

The WhatsApp spyware is sophisticated and “would be available to only advanced and highly motivated actors”, the company said, adding that a “select number of users were targeted”.

“This attack has all the hallmarks of a private company that works with a number of governments around the world” according to initial investigations, it added, but did not name the firm.

WhatsApp has briefed human rights organizations on the matter, but did not identify them.

The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, said in a tweet it believed an attacker tried to target a human rights lawyer as recently as Sunday using this flaw, but was blocked by WhatsApp. The N SO G roup came to prominence in 2016 when researchers accused it of helping spy on an activist in the United Arab Emirates. Its best-known product is Pegasus, a highly invasive tool that can reportedly switch on a target’s phone camera and microphone, and access data on it.

The firm said Tuesday that it only licenses its software to governments for “fighting crime and terror”.

The NSO Group “does not operate the system, and after a rigorous licensing and vetting process, intelligence and law enforcement determine how to use the technology to support their public safety missions”, it said in a statement to AFP. “We investigate any credible allegations of misuse and if necessary, we take action, including shutting down the system.” (afp)

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Lessons from the first lady? Brigitte Macron to return to classroom

PARIS - French first lady Brigitte Macron, a career-long teacher, is set to return to the classroom in a new chain of adult training colleges that she is helping set up.

Macron, a French and drama teacher until 2015, has accepted a supervisory and teaching role for two schools being built, one in a suburb of Paris and another in a rural area of southeast France.

On Monday, she visited the first of the schools by the “Institut des Vocations”, which is also backed rap star Ben J and celebrity chef Thierry Marx and is being financed

by French luxury giant LVMH. The school in the povertywracked Clichy-sous-Bois suburb in northeast Paris will open its doors in September along with another facility near Valence in southeast France, offering courses to around 50 school dropouts aged 25-30 every year.

“It won’t be like the lessons that I gave to pupils before, but more in the Anglo-Saxon style, interactive,” the 66-year-old, who taught at prestigious private schools in her home town of Amiens as well as in Paris, told reporters.

She said the school aimed to give its students, who will be paid 1,000 euros (1,100 dollars) a month, “the foundations to be able to enter the workplace.

“We know they need to know the four operations in maths, to know how to write French, to express themselves, to construct arguments in a written text. I want to give them a taste for literature,” she added.

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Outside Africa, human monkeypox infections have only been previously reported in the United States, Britain and Israel - according to the US Centres For Disease Control and Prevention.

The disease - which is called monkeypox because it was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958 - was first identified in humans in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In 2015, a mass outbreak of 360 Group B Streptococcus infection cases occurred in Singapore, with two fatalities. About 150 of the more serious cases were linked to the consumption of raw freshwater fish. First case of monkeypox in Singapore: 3 other rare infectious diseases seen here previously

Brigitte met Emmanuel Macron, 41, while he was a student in her school in Amiens and began a relationship with him while he was still a teenager, causing a minor scandal locally and anger in their families.

The mother-of-three said that other private companies were interested in following the example of LVMH and sponsoring other adult schools, which are designed to tackle France’s chronic high unemployment rate.

“We are going to duplicate it,” she said, adding that oil group Total had expressed an interest in investing in others.

Brigitte Macron has kept a low public profile since her husband’s election victory in May 2017, accompanying him for major state events but giving few interviews.

She became entangled in an early public row shortly after he took office over plans to create a formal public position of first lady, which would have given her an office and a budget -- an idea Macron abandoned under pressure.

The lover of theatre and literature, who remains political advisor to her husband behind the scenes, had announced that she intends to devote her time to her twin causes of education and helping the handicapped.

Rapper Ben J -- real name Fabien Loubayi -- said the new schools aimed to provide opportunities “to the invisible, people I see during my concerts. It’s important to offer them a hand up, to give them confidence in themselves.” (afp) First case of monkeypox in Singapore: 6 things to know about the virus The man who brought in the virus arrived in Singapore on April 28, Singapore’s Health Ministry said in a statement late last Thursday (May 9), AFP reported.

The 38-year-old developed symptoms two days later and is currently isolated at an infectious disease centre in a stable condition, the ministry said.

At least 23 individuals who were in close contact with the man have been traced, and those who are in Singapore will be quarantined and monitored for 21 days as a precaution, the ministry said.

One left Singapore on May 5, before the Nigerian was diagnosed, but has since made contact with the city’s health authorities and has reported that he is well. (afp)

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Indonesia remembers victims of IS-family suicide bombings

An Indonesian church on Monday remembered the victims of suicide bombings carried out by an Islamic State-inspired family, one year on from the attacks that highlighted the extremist group’s global reach.

On May 13 last year, a family of six -- including two girls aged nine and 12 -- blew themselves up at the Santa Maria Catholic Church and two other churches in Surabaya during Sunday morning services, killing over a dozen congregants and wounding scores more.

The next day, a family who went to the same Koranic study group as the first attackers staged suicide bombings at a police station in Indonesia’s second-biggest city, wounding 10.

Several hundred people gathered at the Santa Maria church on Monday for a memorial prayer session and to hear survivor accounts of the bloodshed, which had raised fears that suicide bomber families could be a terrifying new modus operandi for IS. “I have learned to move on and not be traumatised by the attacks because that’s what they (terrorists) want,” said Desmonda, a Christian woman who survived last year’s bombings.

IS claimed the Surabaya bombings and the families were linked to local extremist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which supports IS. Ines Andi, a hijab-wearing Muslim, also attended Monday’s one-year anniversary, which comes weeks after IS claimed similar suicide attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 250.

“As a Surabayan who was born and raised here, I was shocked to hear about the bombings -- more so because the perpetrators were Muslim,” the 27-year-old said.

“So I want to show my solidarity with the victims and hope that this will never happen again. People envy Indonesia for its diversity so we should preserve it,” she added.

It has been a long road to recovery for many Christians who make up about 10 percent of Indonesia’s 260 million citizens.

The Southeast Asian nation’s religious minorities, which also includes Hindus and Buddhists, have been targeted before and fears for their safety have grown as the voices of Islamic hardliners becomes more prominent in public life.

The coordinated Surabaya attacks were the deadliest in years for a country that has struggled with Islamist militancy since the 2002 Bali bombings killed over 200 people, including scores of tourists “It’s hard to overcome the trauma even though it has been a year,” Rachmat Harjono Tengadi said after a service on Sunday at the Indonesian Christian Church.

The 56-year-old was struck by shrapnel after a mother and her two young daughters, dressed in body covering burqa veils, blew themselves up outside the church.

“Even now if I see somebody wearing a black burqa, my heart feels sick,” Tengadi said. Tengadi’s church opted not to hold a special memorial on Monday’s anniversary over fears it could be painful for congregants.

“We thought it wasn’t a good memory so we’d better not hold any commemoration at all,” said church official Daniel Theophilus Hage. (afp)

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Indonesian Muslims gather during a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of deadly suicide bombings carried out one year ago, outside the Saint Mary Catholic Church in Surabaya on May 13, 2019. An Indonesian church on May 13 remembered the victims of suicide bombings carried out by an Islamic State-inspired family, one year on from the attacks that highlighted the extremist group’s global reach.

Kalla stops over in Qatar prior to Geneva visit

DOHA - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla landed at the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, as a stopover in his journey to Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

Kalla and his wife Mufidah, on arrival at the airport at 5:20 a.m. local time, were extended a warm welcome by Indonesian

Ambassador to Qatar Muhammad Basri Sidehabi and Indonesian Defense Attaché for Iran and Qatar Colonel (Mar) Harwin Dicky Wijanarko.

The vice president thereafter headed to the special waiting room and is scheduled to take a 6.5-hour flight at 8:05 a.m. local time to Geneva.

Kalla and his entourage are expected to land at the Cointrin International Airport in Geneva at 1:35 p.m. local time.

According to vice presidential spokesman Husain Abdullah, Kalla is expected to hold bilateral discussions with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail at Hotel Beau

Rivage on Wednesday (May 15).

The vice president will thereafter attend an event “The Christchurch Call to Action” and a Dinner Tech for Good Summit in Paris, France. The meeting will cover discussion on the latest terror attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

On Thursday (May 16), Kalla

will also deliver a national address at the forum Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction to be held at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG).

At the meeting, Kalla will highlight Indonesia’s efforts to lower disaster risks and restoration measures to handle the impacts of disaster. (ant)

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BUSINESS China retaliates on tariffs, stock markets go into a slide

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Tourism objects in Buleleng district are not only limited to beaches, lakes and waterfalls. Along with its development, riverside is also transformed into an object that is quite capable of attracting travelers to make a visit. For example, it has been done by Tao (shaded) Park at Bantang Banua neighborhood, Sukasada village/subdistrict.

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In this March 5, 2019, file photo, cargo containers are staged near cranes at the Port of Tacoma, in Tacoma, Wash.

China has announced tariff hikes on $60 billion of U.S. goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s escalation of a fight over technology and other trade disputes. The Finance Ministry said Monday, May 13, the penalty duties of 5% to 25% on hundreds of U.S. products including batteries, spinach and coffee take effect June 1. consumers and businesses will bear some of the costs.

“Both sides will pay,” he told Fox News.

In the U.S., prices of soybeans, targeted by Chinese tariffs last year, fell Monday to a 10-year low on fears of a protracted trade war.

In a statement, American Soybean Association President Davie Stevens, a soybean farmer from Clinton, Kentucky, expressed frustration that “the U.S. has been at the table with China 11 times now and still has not closed the deal.

What that means for soybean growers is that we’re losing. Losing a valuable market, losing stable pricing, losing an opportunity to support our families and our communities.”

Trump told reporters Monday that a new program to relieve U.S. farmers’ pain is “being devised right now” and predicted that they will be “very happy.” The administration last year handed farmers aid worth $11 billion to offset losses from trade conflicts.

Trump seemed to suggest that the aid will make up for or partially cover the $15 billion that he said represented “the biggest purchase that China has ever made with our farmers.” In fact, U.S. farm exports to China approached $26 billion in both 2012 and 2013 and came in at $19.5 billion in 2017 before his trade war began taking a toll on agricultural sales to China.

The president’s allies in Congress scrambled

to limit the damage to farm country.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said it is time for U.S. allies to “get in the game” to push China to the negotiating table. “China needs to get with it,” he said. “You can’t move these goalposts like they’re moving them and expect to be respected.”

The highest tariffs announced by China will apply to industrial chemicals, electronic equipment, precision machinery and hundreds of food products.

Beijing is running out of U.S. imports to penalize because of the lopsided trade balance between the world’s two largest economies.

Chinese regulators have instead targeted American companies in China by slowing down the clearing of shipments through customs and the processing of business licenses.

Oxford Economics calculated that the higher tariffs will reduce the U.S. economy by 0.3% in 2020, a loss of $490 per American household.

Similarly, forecasters have warned that the U.S. tariff increases could set back a Chinese recovery that had appeared to be gaining traction.

Growth in the world’s second-largest economy during the January-through-March period held steady at 6.4% compared with a year earlier, supported by higher government spending and bank lending.

The tensions “raise fresh doubts about this

recovery path,” Morgan Stanley economists said. The latest U.S. duties could knock 0.5 percentage points off annual Chinese economic growth, and that could widen to 1 percentage point if both sides extend penalties to all of each other’s exports, economists say. That would pull annual growth below 6%, raising the risk of politically dangerous job losses.

China’s state media tried to reassure businesses and consumers that the ruling Communist Party has the means to respond.

“There is nothing to be afraid of,” said the party newspaper People’s Daily. “The U.S.instigated trade war against China is just a hurdle in China’s development process. It is no big deal.”

Trump has threatened to extend tariffs to the remaining $300 billion or so in Chinese tariffs that haven’t been targeted yet, but told reporters Monday: “I have not made that decision yet.”

The president started raising tariffs last July over complaints China steals or pressures foreign companies to hand over technology and unfairly subsidizes Chinese businesses that are striving to become global leaders in robotics and other technology.

A stumbling block has been U.S. insistence on an enforcement mechanism with penalties to ensure Beijing carries out its commitments. (ap)

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Tao Park in Sukasada, Natural Beauty with Splashing of River Water

BEIJING - Sending Wall Street into a slide, China announced higher tariffs Monday on $60 billion worth of American goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest penalties on Chinese products.

Duties of 5% to 25% will take effect on June 1 on about 5,200 American products, including batteries, spinach and coffee, China’s Finance Ministry said.

With investors worried about the potential economic damage on all sides from the escalating trade war, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 617 points, or 2.4%, and the technologyheavy Nasdaq plunged 270 points, or 3.4%, its biggest drop of the year. Earlier, stocks fell in Europe and Asia.

“We appear to be in a slow-motion train wreck, with both sides sticking to their positions,” said William Reinsch, a trade analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. trade official. “As is often the case, however, the losers will not be the negotiators or presidents, but the people.”

Beijing’s move came after the U.S. raised duties Friday on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25%, up from 10%. In doing so, American officials accused China of backtracking on commitments it made in earlier negotiations. The same day, trade talks between the two countries broke up without an agreement.

On Twitter, Trump warned Xi that China “will be hurt very badly” if it doesn’t agree to a trade deal. Trump tweeted that Beijing “had a great deal, almost completed, & you backed out!” The rising trade hostilities could damage the economies of both countries. The tariff increases already in place have disrupted trade in such American products as soybeans and medical equipment and sent shockwaves through other Asian economies that supply Chinese factories.

Still, the two countries have given themselves something of an escape hatch: The higher Chinese tariffs don’t kick in for 2½ weeks. The U.S. increases apply to Chinese goods shipped since Friday, and those shipments will take about three weeks to arrive at U.S. seaports and become subject to the higher charges.

Also, both countries have indicated more talks are likely. Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that China has invited U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to Beijing. But nothing has been scheduled. And Trump said Monday that he expects to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in late June at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

The president has repeatedly insisted that increased tariffs on Chinese goods don’t hurt American consumers. But Kudlow, head of the president’s National Economic Council, acknowledged over the weekend that U.S.

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The park newly opened last month is right on the bank of the Banyumala River that offers crystal clear water and heavy water flow.

It is quite easy to get to the park. Visitors from Denpasar can find first the intersection of Three Monument or Sangket Terminal.

Approximately 400 meters to the west, the location can be immediately found. At that time, the eyes will be immediately pampered by verdant trees and the rush of river water remaining to look very clear.

Such an atmosphere will be able to directly eliminate your fatigue after a hectic activity.

When making a visit to the object, you cannot just take photos but also unwind, sit on some chairs and tables and gazebo lining at the edge of the river. Then, it looks more beautiful when equipped with colorful umbrellas looking like a rainbow. If you are hungry, do not worry. Various culinary delicacies and drinks can be easily found at this location.

The park owner, Made Yasamada, said the making of the park covering an area of ??26.5 square meters was inspired by his concern over the river that is used as a landfill. Vile impression cannot be avoided. “Initially, this location was very dirty. Then, I cleaned it up and instantly made into a park,” he said not long ago.

Since the initial opening, the park has been able to attract people to make a visit, especially those of young age. For instance, Dea, a teenager form Busungbiu, is intrigued to visit because it is haunted by her curiosity after seeing a post on social media. “It’s very nice. The air is cool and very quiet. Besides, it is suitable for a visit,” she said.

Clean river fitted with river stones also attracts visitors to make it into the background of their photos. In addition, visitors would also like to enjoy the cool mountain water, so infrequently visitors take a bath at the location. With a myriad of sensations, this park should be included in your traveling agenda. (kmb)

‘Julia Roberts Point’ Increasingly Visited by More Tourists

Since it was used for film shooting of the Eat, Pray, Love starred by famous artist Julia Roberts, the lava area at Toya Bungkah Batur, Kintamani is now visited by many tourists. Each day, there are always tourists especially those coming to just look around the existing natural beauty on the edge of Lake Batur.

To get to the shooting location of the Eat, Pray, Love or all this time known as the Julia Roberts Point, visitors must walk about 500 meters long from the highway.

This happens because there is no road access to the location. Along the way, visitors will pass through volcanic rocks and a variety of horticultural crops such as onions, tomatoes and peppers cultivated by local residents. To find out the shooting location, visitors can read directly an information board

on the edge of the lake. The short information is bilingually written in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

One of the local residents, Putu Ariana, said that since the location was used for film shooting, the pillow lava area is visited by many tourists, mostly consisting of foreign tourists. “Not long ago, my brother took tourists from Australia to this location,” he explained.

Visitors coming to the Julia Roberts Point are usually driven by curiosity with natural beauty featured in the film. He said that before used as a shooting location, it was rarely visited by tourists. Most tourists coming to Toya Bungkah will skip this location. “But now, more and more tourists are coming here.

Other than to Julia Roberts Point, they also visit the area of Batur caldera,” he said.

Now, to keep the area of Batur caldera including the Julia Roberts Point clean, hundreds of residents from several villages came down to pick up plastic waste in the region of Toya Bungkah, Wednesday (Mar. 2). At least, one truck of plastic waste could be collected and disposed of to regional landfill at Landih.

Headman of Songan B, Jero Lanang, said that the cleanup action to collect plastic waste will be carried out continuously. The 15 villages in the lakeside area are expected to get involved so that sanitation of the terrestrial garden is well maintained. “All this time, the Batur Geopark is known quite unclean. Through this action, we invite the community to participate in maintaining the sanitation of the geopark area,” he said. (kmb)

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Application of admission ticket to Waterblow

at IDR 15,000 for domestic tourists and IDR 25,000 for foreign tourists. The tariff application is based on the Decree of Badung Regent No.17/041 / HK / 2018. “Well, the tariff determination has been approved by the Badung Tourism Office,” he said.

He said that after arranging in the area, visitors coming to the Waterblow area are also confirmed about their security. Visitors can enjoy the beauty of the bridge from 3 monitoring deck areas. They are even forbidden to go down to the reef for security reason. “The closest deck distance is 15 meters from the cliff. Visitors may not go down to the reef,” he affirmed.

Additionally, during extreme weather conditions, the area is also monitored by security and lifeguard. There are also restrictions on the area based on the situation and wave height information from the National Weather Service (BMKG). “For security reason, visitors are also supervised by security and lifeguard. As for each ticket held, it has been covered with insurance, and the BIMC Siloam Nusa Dua Hospital will be used as a reference in the event of an undesirable event,” he explained. (kmb23)

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Search terminated due to minimal indications

SEMARAPURA - The search process for Kausal Aditya, 24, an Indian tourist, who was dragged in waves at the Devil’s Tear Cliff, Lembongan village, Nusa Penida, was stopped last Monday (May 13). The effort was stopped after a seven-day search process, but it didn’t work.

During the seven days of sweeping in the middle of the sea, the officers got very minimal indications to find the whereabouts of the victim.

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the admission ticket to Waterblow in the area of ITDC Nusa Dua, South Kuta subdistrict, is complained by visitors.

‘Rise up’: Papua New Guinea female police chief’s battle cry to women

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During the seven days of sweeping in the middle of the sea, the officers got very minimal indications to find the whereabouts of the victim.

Section Head of Operation and Alert of the Denpasar Search and Rescue, Ida Bagus Surya Wiryawan, when contacted on Monday (May 13) stated the search process for Kausal Aditya last Monday was the last day. According to the rules, it is obligatory to conduct a search for seven days. Nevertheless, the efforts to find the whereabouts of the victim are immediately stopped.

His party remains open if there is information on indication from certain parties which have a clue to the whereabouts of the victim.

“The victim last put on a white shirt and blue pants. If people commonly passing in the area happen to encounter the whereabouts of the victim, please be informed immediately. Of course, we will follow up and we remain open to it,” said Surya Wiryawan.

The last search process on Monday returned to involve a ten-meter Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) of the

National SAR Agency and a similar RIB from Water Police Unit of Bali Police plus a speed boat and three other inflatable boats. The search was also assisted by local fishermen focused around the area where the victim fell. Unfortunately, the results are still found nothing.

Meanwhile, the victim’s family kept trying to encourage all parties to find Kausal Aditya. Moreover, after coming to the office of Denpasar SAR Agency, according to Surya Wirawan, the victim’s family distributed leaflets to Balinese people. Anyone that can find the victim will be rewarded. “It is the initiative from the victim’s family, not from us. But, we have previously spread information to all speed boat masters. If you find the victim, we hope to immediately contact us,” he said.

He did not dare to ascertain whether the victim is still alive or already dead before the victim is

actually found. However, seeing the chronology of the incident to the search for the seventh day is also zero, there is small possibility for the victims to remain safe.

As reported earlier, the ferocious waves around the Batu Belek Cliff or known by tourists with the name of Devil’s Tear returned to claim a fatality on Tuesday afternoon (May 7). A foreign tourist from India, Kausal Aditya, 24, immediately disappeared from the top of the cliff after being struck by the ferocious waves rising up the cliff.

Spokesman of Klungkung Police, Putu Gede Ardana, asked tourists and other residents to be more careful when they are at the place. Visitors should not get too close to the edge of the cliff, so that visitors will not endanger themselves. Regional government plans to gradually install a wooden fence to limit tourists visiting the place. (kmb31)

KOKOPO - In a nation where sexual violence is endemic, women are still targeted and attacked for witchcraft, and female representation in parliament is non-existent, police chief Julie Palakai is blazing a trail for change.

The 43-year-old inspector, a domestic abuse survivor and 18-year veteran of the force, is one of the most senior female police officers in Papua New Guinea -- and is calling on the nation’s women to take a stand against sexism with her.

“Women must strive and rise up against any discrimination, abuse and sexual harassment in the workplace,” she tells AFP. “For young girls who are still struggling: Do not give up but strive for the best to achieve your goals and to find a better and happy life. Nothing is impossible,” she insists.

Human Rights Watch named Papua New Guinea “one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman” in a report which estimated 70 percent of women would be raped or assaulted in their lifetime.

The NGO added that sorcery-related violence remains an issue, adding that women and girls are the “primary targets”, though men too have been attacked in witch-hunts.

None of the country’s 111 parliamentarians are women and there are few women in the police force.Palakai is the only female commissioned officer -- an umbrella term for senior management from inspector grade upwards -- in all of Papua New Guinea’s northeastern Islands Region.

She has worked hard to get to her position battling institutional dis-

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This picture taken on March 4, 2019 shows parade commander Julie Palakai (L) escorting East New Britain’s new residential Judge Justice Stephen Kassman (R) during a guard of honour parade outside Kokopo Police station in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea.

Badung Tourism Office claims there is no agreement yet MANGUPURA - Even though it has begun to apply, the admission ticket to Waterblow in the area of ITDC Nusa Dua, South Kuta subdistrict, is complained by visitors.

Domestic visitors claimed that the rate charged is not in accordance with the object offered or those in the area. Besides, the application of admission ticket has not yet been agreed by the Badung district government.

The Badung Tourism Office having the authority to set forth the tariff and the cooperation agreement admitted there was no agreement with the ITDC. Head of the Badung Tourism Office, I Made Badra, said that determination of the admission ticket to the Waterblow location had not yet been agreed. “It (admission ticket) has not yet been discussed. Tomorrow (May 14) it will just be discussed at the Badung Civic Center including the cooperation agreement,” he said when confirmed on Monday (May 13).

Meanwhile, Operations Division Head of the ITDC Nusa Dua, Made Pariwijaya, claimed that the tariff is made after getting approval from the Badung Tourism Office. So, his management started to collect admission ticket from May 1, 2019

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crimination, abuse, and rigid cultural expectations.

Palakai now heads the Public Safety Unit at Kokopo Police Station: It’s a role that’s highly visible -- she leads the prestigious Guard of Honour parade. Dressed in crisp police blues and wielding a large silver sword, she proudly marches judges, superior officers and other dignitaries -- almost always male -- up and down Guard of Honour lines. It’s a rare sight in the male-dominated nation, and a role that requires total respect from subordinates. “When inviting and escorting an important officer or VIP on parade, we are actually inspecting each individual on parade,” she says.

Palakai came from a broken family and while she finished secondary school, any plans for further education were disrupted when her home town of Rabaul, was devastated by twin volcanic eruptions in 1994.

Instead, she took a job as a sales rep for a stationary firm in the area but soon became restless. By chance, she saw an advert from the police in the local paper and decided to respond to their search for new recruits.

She was shocked to be selected, Palakai conceded, but happily took the six-month training course near capital Port Moresby before being posted to Lihir, an island best known for gold-mining.

“I was just a young policewoman

officer posted out there to lead, manage and command officers older than me, very experienced and long-serving policemen and women,” she said of the role as station commander.

“You have to learn to think fast during states of emergency or in everyday situations whilst on normal police duties, and make prompt and wise decisions,” she added.

Palakai was ambitious, but like many women in Papua New Guinea, she found her partner was not receptive to her career aspirations.

“I had to leave him as I could not see any better future with him given...the disrespectful behaviour that I could not stand any longer,” she told AFP. “He often argued telling me that I was just a woman and policemen and women will not listen to my instructions and orders and that women had no power to lead,” she recalled.

In May 2013 she became a commissioned officer, graduating along with four other female officers placed around the country, and 20 male colleagues at a ceremony overseen by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.

Since then she has championed the push to encourage women to actively invest in their future.

She explains: “Education does not stop when you are young or old.

Where there is opportunity, go for it, as education is your future.” (afp)

MINUWANGODA - Parts of Sri Lanka were under indefinite curfew Tuesday and social media off-limits after a man was killed by swordwielding rioters in an escalating anti-Muslim backlash following the Easter terror attacks.

Violence broke out late Monday, three weeks after Islamist extremist bombings killed 258 people, with rampaging mobs carrying out arson attacks and 2,000 people vandalising a mosque, witnesses said.

A nationwide curfew imposed overnight was raised on Tuesday morning except for the North-Western Province (NWP) where police said a 45-year-old Muslim man was slaughtered in his carpentry shop by a crowd carrying swords.

Police said Tuesday that 13 people had been arrested including Amith Weerasinghe, a man from Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhist Sinhalese community on bail for his role in similar riots in March last year in the central Kandy district.

Elsewhere in NWP north of Colombo, the attackers, who outnumbered police and security forces, set fire to Muslim-owned shops, vandalised homes and smashed windows, furniture and fittings inside several mosques.

In the adjoining Gampaha district, men on motorbikes led arson attacks in the town of Minuwangoda, 45 kilometres (30 miles) north of Colombo, local residents told AFP. “They were from out of town,” an owner of an electronic goods store told AFP by telephone.

“After they started smashing Muslim shops and throwing petrol bombs, the locals joined in.”

- ‘Police did nothing’ He said police and security forces appeared to be overwhelmed and that by the time troops fired in the air to disperse the mobs it was too late.

A pasta factory owned by a Muslim businessman burned to the ground after unidentified attackers threw burning tyres inside.

“Police and security forces also did not do anything to put out the fire,” the owner of Diamond Pasta, Ashraf Jifthy, told AFP by telephone.

“Three of my Muslim workers were injured while trying to escape from the burning factory.”

A mosque in Minuwangoda was also stoned.

In the NWP, attackers systematically targeted mosques for two days, local clerics told AFP. In the town of Kinyama, two mosques were smashed as the outnumbered armed police and troops stood by.

“About 2,000 people surrounded our mosque and smashed everything inside, even the bathroom fittings,” cleric M.I.M. Siddeeque told AFP by telephone from the curfew-bound town of Bingiriya.

Video footage of the unrest showed burning shops as mobs armed with sticks and stones roamed the streets attacking Muslim-owned shops.

Police said the curfew in the NWP would continue until further notice.

“Security forces are assisting police who have been ordered to use maximum force to contain the violence,” police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.

Police said they fired in the air and used tear gas at several places to deter people attempting to attack mosques. (afp)

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Heavily-armed Sri Lankan soldiers (L) ride a motorcycle near the Jumha Mosque after a mob attack in Minuwangoda on May 14, 2019.

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Brick-bot Hadrian X to start building residential homes in Australia

HIGH WYCOMBE Australian firm Fastbrick Robotics (FBR) and Australian building material supplier Brickworks have formed a 50/50 joint venture to focus on residential construction.

The joint venture will offer a “Wall as a Service” operation, with FBR’s Hadrian X construction robot laying the bricks and Brickworks providing masonry blocks optimised for use with the machine.

FBR has already received the first shipment of concrete masonry blocks from Brickworks. The blocks are being tested at a new 10,000 sq m facility based in High Wycombe in western Australia.

The joint venture will last three years, but can be extended.

Mike Pivac, FBR’s chief executive, said: “We are very pleased to have a joint venture partner in Australia with the reputation and scale of Brickworks to jointly offer Wall as a Service to the Australian market. The joint venture will demonstrate the capabilities of the Hadrian X and test our business model for the commercialisation of Wall as a Service.”

In November 2018, Hadrian X built a complete house in three days, and in July 2017, Caterpillar announced that it would buy $2m (£1.53m) shares in FBR. FBR said in a recent press release that it is planning “global commercialisation” of its operations. (net)

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Hard hat with brain protection system to be launched

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Swedish helmet safety firm MIPS has teamed up with industrial safety firm Guardio to offer the world’s first hard hat with a MIPS brain protection system.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish helmet safety firm MIPS has teamed up with industrial safety firm Guardio to offer the world’s first hard hat with a MIPS brain protection system.

Already popular among motorcycle and bicycle helmet manufacturers, MIPS (which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System) has developed its brain protection system after more than 20 years of research with the Royal Institute of Technology and the Karolinska University in Stockholm.

Now the firm is targeting the construction industry’s hard hat, citing figures from the US-based

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that the construction sector has the greatest number of both fatal and non-fatal traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in US workplaces.

Guardio has partnered with MIPS to create the Armet helmet, which will be available from June this year.

The helmet will feature the MIPS brain protection system, which is designed to reduce the rotational motion transmitted to the brain from angled impacts to the head. Rotational motion can affect the brain and increase the risk of minor and severe brain injuries. MIPS’ added protection system has been proven

to reduce the rotational motion when implemented in a helmet by absorbing and redirecting energies and forces otherwise transmitted to the brain, the company claimed.

“We are very excited about the partnership with Guardio which means that we now can add protection to safety helmets as well,” said Max Strandwitz, CEO of MIPS. “This is a new category for us but a category that MIPS have been looking at for a long time. Guardio is a partner that shares our values and we are looking forward to when the helmet will be released on the market.” (net)

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Thousands of artists to be involved, 220 art shows to be performed

DENPASAR — Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XLI 2019 will be held on June 15-July 13. Featuring the theme “Bayu Pramana (Glorifying Wind Resources),” this year’s BAF brings the spirit of the new era of Bali. Although it is an old theme having been formulated for a long time, “Bayu Pramana” seems to be connected with the vision of Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali.

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Deputy Chairperson II of the BAF XLI Organizing Committee, I Gede Arya Sugiartha, at the plenary meeting in Jayasabha, the office of Bali Governor, said on Monday (May 13) there are 7 main materials in the BAF consisting of march, parade, competition, performance, workshop, exhibition and gathering. As scheduled, the parade will be released by the governor and carried out in front of the Bajra Sandi Monument, Renon, Denpasar, on June 15 at 14:00.

Thousands of artists are involved, both contingents of the districts / municipality and contingents outside the region and overseas. After that, it will be resumed with the opening at Ardha Candra Amphitheater, Bali Cultural Park.

“President of the Republic of Indonesia will be present to give a speech while officially opening the Bali Art Festival XLI at Ardha Candra,” said this Chancellor of Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar.

Arya Sugiartha added that the opening session in the evening will be filled with Pendet Dance performance by 20 selected elementary school students, as well as the Bali Padma Bhuwana Dance oratory performance. Even though it features the story of Dalem Waturenggong, the performance remains in accordance with the vision of Nangun Sat Kerthi Loka Bali. It contains the hope that Bali will be regaining its golden period in the current leadership of Governor Wayan Koster as occurred

during the reign of King Udayana and Dalem Waturenggong.

After the opening, for almost a month the community will be entertained with a total of 220 art performances paraded, contested, performed or workshop. Apart from thousands of artists from 9 districts / municipality in Bali, the BAF also involves 21 outside region participants and 11 foreign participants, including the exhibition of handicrafts, fine arts, traditional Balinese buildings, and culinary industries.

“There is no festival like this in any country. All people participate in the event throught the concept of devotional work or ngayah,” he added.

Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, said the BAF must be a medium to promote Balinese culture especially the efforts to protect and preserve classical and traditional arts. Besides, it must also contain dimensions of development and empowerment. “In terms of content, there has been preservation, development and empowerment.

However, they are still dominant in conservation,” he affirmed.

Especially for the parade, Koster saw the overall concept has been neat. However, he is more inclined to invite the president to be present at the opening rather than releasing the parade. He considered the parade will take a long time around two hours. Besides, the atmosphere is hot and crowded so that it is less representative for the president to greet the public. Meanwhile at Ardha Candra, it is considered to

be more orderly, comfortable, and magnificent so that the president’s direction can be better heard by the audience.

“However, we are still making an effort so that he will be willing to be present at the parade and opening,” added this Chairman of the PDIP Bali.

Koster added the exhibition booths in this year’s BAF are not subject to rental fees or free of charge. The exhibitors remain to pass through the selection process at the Industry and Trade Agency to be adjusted to the criteria and

quota of the booths. The committee is aware that small and medium industry players do not have many advantages. If they are still burdened with rental fee, it will certainly be difficult to move forward. Not to mention, the revenue from rental booths is actually not too large for the Bali provincial government.

“In the past, the exhibitors should pay but in the new era they are not necessary to pay. There has been a new Governor Regulation stating if the stands are made free of charge,” he explained.

President of Indonesia Joko Widodo will open BAF XLI

Although remaining to still prioritize quality, Koster hoped that the exhibition can be more orderly, healthy (for culinary) and the products may not be sold at too expensive prices. His committee wanted that all parties involved in the BAF, including people making a visit, should feel cheerful and happy like in a real ‘party.’ On the other hand, he also ensured the exhibitors are not only “those very same craftsmen.” “In the past, these are brought by those and those are brought by these, while I myself do not bring anyone,” he concluded. (kmb32)

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Denpasar Police deploy officers to monitor convoy of high school students DENPASAR - Scribbling on clothes and convoys when celebrating high school / vocational school graduation took place on Monday (May 13). Denpasar Police deployed all forces to monitor and supervise them.

“All of my strength is mobilized to anticipate the euphoria of celebrating the graduation day by high school and vocational high school students. In addition to the Ngurah

Rai Stadium, they also gather at Nusa Dua Lagoon Square,” said Operation Division Head of Denpasar Police, I Nyoman Gatra.

According to Gatra, his institution deployed all the Patrol Units on duty and the Riot Squad, especially the Police of Traffic Affair. It is meant to prevent traffic violations because they are in groups. Moreover, Bali has been made into an orderly traffic model according to

the Commander Wish of the Bali Police Chief, Dr. Petrus Reinhard Golose.

“We do not let them be reckless on the road because they are our next generation so that they must be fostered,” said this former Chief of Benoa Water Area Police.

Other than the Police of Traffic Affairs, Patrol Unit and Riot Squad, his institution also deployed a closed patrol unit, intelligence

and security as well as and criminal investigation agency. “Prior to carrying out convoys, we gave them briefing so that they are more orderly on the road,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Badung Police Traffic Affairs, Kanisius, said that monitoring and supervision against the convoy celebrating the graduation of high school / vocational school students is also carried out on the

Denpasar-Petang route. He made coordination with the Abiansemal and Petang Police to jointly carry out surveillance. “We encourage them to use helmets and create orderly traffic,” he said.

Regarding traffic accidents experienced by convoy participants in the area of Petang, Kanisius said there are no reports because the victims were only slightly injured. (kmb36)

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Director General of P2P: WHO reminds that monkeypox transmits from human to human DENPASAR - Ministry of Health received a notification from the World Health Organization (WHO) that there is a monkeypox case that occurred in Singapore. The disease attacked a Nigerian citizen. The person was confirmed positive for monkeypox.

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Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) at the Ministry of Health, Anung Sugihantono, explained the disease has long been known since the 1970s but in Africa. Monkeypox partly leads to self limiting sessions, which means that patient can return to normal within a certain period of time if the body’s resistance is good. “But now WHO identifies and reminds that this disease is contagious,” he said during the Commemoration of World Malaria Day at Kertalangu, Denpasar, on Monday (May 13).

Until now the transmission is only known to happen from animals to humans, but WHO asks to be aware of the transmission from human to human. “That’s why Singapore then checked the people who had contact with the person related to this case,” he said.

A total of 29 people who had contact with positive monkeypox patient were examined. Until now, there have been no case discoveries in Singapore from the contacts.

“Since the case was notified by the Singapore’s Ministry of Health and told us, we remind our colleagues at the harbor health offices to make prevention, case discovery efforts and continuous observation at the entrances,” he explained.

He focused on the entrances adjacent to Singapore, namely in Batam, Tanjung Pinang and Riau Islands because there are many entrances there.

“Besides, many Nigerian citizens are in Indonesia in the context of shopping or buying something to bring to their home country.

Therefore, we observe and guard the Soekarno-Hatta, Tanjung Priok as well as other entrances,” he said. Up to this day, he did not find any cases and no news about it spread in Indonesia. (kmb42)

Beji Paluh Park becomes a new spiritual tourism MANGUPURA - A number of villages in Badung district are interested in developing their tourism sector. Within this year, many new tourist objects have emerged. For instance, there is Beji Paluh Park located at Penarungan village.

The tourist attraction getting renovation assistance from the Badung district government has become one of the tourist attractions in Bali, especially Badung. Beji Paluh Park does exist from time immemorial. Many people want to perform spiritual cleansing by doing melukat or self-purification at the Beji Park Temple.

Not only that, the self-purification located at Eleven Shower of Dauh Peken hamlet area, Penarungan village, Mengwi, really presents complete natural beauty

with tubing tourist attractions.

“Based on the story I know, it is said the water flowing into Beji Paluh Park comes from the Tukad Yeh Penet and Bebengan River,” said hamlet chief of Dauh Peken, I Gede Made Artanegara, on Monday (May 13).

According to him, the project on behalf of the arrangement of Beji Park and Road Tracking at Penarungan tourism village is disbursed with the fund of IDR 14,870,064,000. “It is meant to provide the opportunities and facilities for the wider community to do the penglukatan or self-purification,” he explained.

The Five Showers consist of the Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Rudra and Sambu. Meanwhile, the Eleven Showers consists of the Toya Ning,

Tirta Gangga, Toya Penglukatan, Toya Pembersihan, Toya Pamrayascitta, Toya Pangleburan, Toya Pangening-ening, Toya Panyejer, Toya Sudamala, and Toya Pangentas.

Regarding the management, the destination also offering a jogging track and river tubing is under the Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) of Penarungan village.

“The management of Pokdarwis is based on the decree of local headman,” he said.

As the stories circulating in the community, it started from subak group of Kapal village requiring irrigation water for the villagers’ fields. Local community tried to direct the flow of springs from Penarungan village to Kapal village. It was started from Abing hamlet which is currently known as

Dauh Peken hamlet. Community’s efforts did not work out, even repeatedly the land collapsed. People then made breakdown as a barrier to direct the water flow. It is said that due to this problem, one of the community members intentionally tried by invoking to the ruler of nature. Whoever arrived at the end will be used as pakelem or sacrifice so that the effort was successful.

Apparently, the vow really worked. Once upon a time, someone arrived at the end. He was a water coordinator who was in charge of regulating the irrigation water. Suddenly, he fell and died while walking on the edge of the river. Since then, the decision made has never experienced a problem until now. The former droppings of the river caused the soil uneven

or what is referred to as mapaluhpaluh until then the location of former backfill is known as Beji Paluh Park until now.

Psychically, said Artanegara, the springs in Beji Paluh Park have long been believed to have efficacies. In particular, they can cure various nonmedical diseases such as eye and skin disease. Initially, there were five springs in Beji Paluh Park. That’s why it was then called the Pancoran Lima or Five Showers.

“Local residents usually use it for penglukatan or self-purification of all basic elements. Especially for health, the flow of water in Beji Paluh Temple is believed through generations to have efficacy that can provide healing for the eye and skin diseases,” he explained. (kmb27)

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“Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has finished filming a new thriller “Escape From Pretoria”.

‘Harry Potter’ actor to star in new S.Africa jailbreak drama CANNES - “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has finished filming a new thriller where he plays a white anti-apartheid activist who escaped from one of South Africa’s toughest jails, its distributor said Tuesday.

Based on a true story, the breakout tale “Escape From Pretoria” is drawn from Tim Jenkin’s account of his dramatic escape from the notorious Pretoria Maximum Security Prison with his friend Stephen Lee in 1979.

Already in post-production after shooting was wrapped up in South Africa three weeks ago, fresh footage will be on show at the Cannes film festival which begins Tuesday, Arclight Films said.

Jenkin, now 70, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for handing out leaflets supporting the then banned African National Congress.

But he managed to make a set of wooden keys for a series of doors inside the jail, which housed the country’s death row.

Using a device made from a broom handle and a mirror he had hidden in his cell, Jenkin opened his cell door and then freed his neighbour and friend Lee.

Edgy, dark and tolerated: ‘China noir’ seeks Cannes breakthrough The Diao Yinan-directed crime thriller “The Wild Goose Lake” is going head-to-head with the likes of Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” for the festival’s top prize, the Palme D’Or. Similar gritty themes are expected to be explored in director Zu Fen’s “Summer of Changsha”, which is competing in the more edgy Un Certain Regard section.

Both films are part of a growing “mainland noir” film movement that is expanding the boundaries of a Chinese film industry strictly controlled by government censorship over topics such as violence, corruption and sex.

Shot and situated far from the gleaming lights of modern China’s metropolises, these films feature haunted anti-heroes dwelling on the edges of society.

The box office success of 2017’s critically lauded “Looming Storm” -- about one man’s hunt for a serial killer stalking a small town -- showed that previously taboo subjects are increasingly tolerated by China’s National Film Administration.

Diao’s last crime thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice” picked up the Golden Bear top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014 with its gripping tale of a wronged policemen looking for redemption.

It was also a global box office ground-breaker for low-budget Chinese films, collecting around $17 million (15 million euros) after successful domestic and limited international runs.

“These are exciting times,” said Alexandre Mallet-Guy, producer of “The Wild Goose Lake”.

“Our film is noir, with a very complex plot and it is very stylish.” (afp)

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HONG KONG - Tales from the shadowy edges of modern Chinese society aim to turn heads at the Cannes film festival, showing the growing scope and sophistication of the world’s second-largest movie market.

Both managed to slip out of the tightly guarded prison and eventually flee to London.

The movie is directed by Francis Annan, a rising young black British director who also wrote the script. Radcliffe, 29, is also playing the lead in the action comedy “Guns Akimbo”, which is now in post-production. (afp)

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Indonesia on alert for monkeypox

Tightens inspection on visitors from Singapore, Nigeria

JAKARTA - The government, particularly the Health Ministry, has intensified efforts to prevent the spread of monkeypox after Singapore reported its first case of the rare virus recently.

“The Health Ministry has been anticipating the potential spread (of the monkeypox virus) since last week by strengthening its prevention and detection systems at various entry gates to Indonesia,” said the ministry’s disease control and prevention director general, Mr Anung Sugihantono.

He added that tight inspection of visitors from Nigeria and Singapore had been carried out to further prevent the virus spreading.

Singapore reported over the weekend that it had identified a case of monkeypox that might have been brought in by a Nigerian man, who

had allegedly contracted the virus by eating bushmeat at a wedding.

In response to the report, Batam, as the Indonesian region closest to Singapore, has initiated measures to prevent the potential spread of the rare virus.

Local authorities have readied two hospitals, namely the Batam Free Trade Zone Hospital and Embung Fatimah Public Hospital, as the main providers of special treatment for suspected monkeypox cases. They have also set up thermal detectors in five international ports directly connecting the island and Singapore.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore, involving a Nigerian national who arrived last month for a workshop.

Risk of monkeypox spreading in Singapore is low, say infectious disease experts The Batam authorities are monitoring visitors coming into the city via the airport, even though there are no direct flights connecting Batam and Singapore.

Batam Health Agency head Didi Kusumajadi and his team visited the Batam Free Trade Zone Hospital on Monday to inspect the isolation and emergency rooms.

“We will continue monitoring the situation and maintaining preventive measures until Singapore declares that it is free from the

virus,” Mr Didi told The Jakarta Post separately.

So far, no person has been declared monkeypox-positive since the implementation of the tighter inspection regime at Batam’s entry gates. Batam Immigration Office’s data show that roughly 3.3 million people entered last year via the five international ports.

About 1.7 million of the visitors came from overseas - a majority of whom were Singaporean.

Mr Didi gave an assurance that, as a border region, Batam had proven itself successful in preventing the spread of contagious diseases including the Sars virus outbreak that hit Singapore hard in 2003. The disease reportedly killed 33 people in the country, inflicted major losses on the economy and hit some international visitors.

Monkeypox is endemic to parts of Central and Western Africa.

Symptoms in humans include lesions, fever, muscle aches and chills. It can be transmitted via close contact with infected animals such as rodents and monkeys, and between people. It is not normally fatal, with fewer than 10 per cent of deaths recorded in documented outbreaks, mostly among young children.

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